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hi everyone
hope you are all well
I am starting to get the summer exhibit up at traces now
there is an announcement about this in ideapark.org > news

bye
Suzy

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hi everyone
hope you are doing very well
here is Hannah Banana at the lake yesterday, she had a wonderful time, so did Cleo.

ja ne, have a great day. -Suzy

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Press Release     

For release: May 29, 2006

Contact: Wayne Bradburn
(540) 745-2784

wayne@jacksonvillecenter.org

Jacksonville Center To Host Book Signing by Local Author, Fred First

The Jacksonville Center is pleased to host a reading and book signing by local author, Fred First, on Sunday, June 4 from 4pm to 6pm., in the Center’s Community Room. 

IF you live in or long for the southern mountains…

IF you are drawn toward the pace and pleasures of unhurried, out-of-the-way places…

IF you hope for a home you are waiting to find, then you will feel at home in the pages of this "memoir of place", Slow Road Home ~ a Blue Ridge Book of Days by Fred First.

With a naturalist's curiosity, a photographer's eye, and the heart of one who knows that he is living at last where he belongs, Fred First invites the reader to join him on a field trip through time and place.

On Sunday the author will be reading from and signing his new book, with a reception to follow.  Copies will be available for purchase with $4 of each sale to be donated to The Jacksonville Center.  Attendees can also sign up for a drawing for a free copy of the book.

The Jacksonville Center for the Arts is located on Route 8 in Floyd, Va., a quarter mile south of the traffic light in the center of town where U.S. 221 and Route 8 intersect.  It is six miles north of the Blue Ridge Parkway Route 8 exit at Tuggles Gap.  The Jacksonville Center is a member-based, charitable nonprofit cultural arts center that houses a cultural business incubator artists-in-residence program, an art gallery, a retail shop, a large community room available for short term rentals and a variety of classes designed for both the regional community and the visiting public.

The Center is open Monday- Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday 10am-5pm and Sunday 12noon-5pm March- December.  For more information, call 540-745-2784, or visit www.jacksonvillecenter.org.

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Hi everyone
Hope you all are well

Here is a bit of news re - the Hackensaw Boys - they will be playing in Floyd next Friday and playing at Bull Run Park in Centreville, Virginia the next Saturday and Sunday (June 3 & 4). Scott Perry, Blue Mule, John McCutcheon and Billy Miller will also be playing at that festival. To learn more please call 540-745-3378 or visit vintagevirginia.com

The Wild Turkeys will be playing sometime soon. I am not sure if they are playing at the Bull Run festival next weekend or at the Wine Down the Trail thing, I will try to get more info on this.

On June 24 there will be an art reception at the Jacksonville Center for the upcoming Earth & Stone exhibit. I believe that the reception for the Traces summer exhibit will happen on this day too. Billy Miller will be playing music for the reception, most likely in the silo with a few friends.

Also Billy & Joanne Bell just opened a beautiful shop in Floyd, please go see them there any day except Monday and Tuesday, when they are closed.

Ja ne, o genki de ne

(bye, wishing you well)

Suzy

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Bell Gallery & Garden. 112 N. Locust Street, Floyd, Virginia 24091. (540) 745 - 4494.

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pictures from may 20

ciao hello everybody
hope you are all well

thank you to everyone who joined us at the bellydance
an extra special thank you to all the musicians

below is a picture from the evening
this is Julie with a sword on her head











more pictures to follow soon

ja ne, have a great day
-Suzy

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tags for this post: gyroscopic, billy miller, sun music hall, floyd, virginia

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