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Hotel Floyd

Colleen Redman is reporting on her blog that the Hotel Floyd is continuing to embrace the green initiatives that inspired its founding…

The first electric car charger in Floyd County and maybe in the New River Valley is now located in the parking lot of the Hotel Floyd’s new addition. ~ Loose Leaf Notes » Blog [...]

By Gary Boyd
June 17th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: Blue Ridge Mountains Of Virginia
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Floyd Makes ‘Great Places You’ve (Maybe) Never Heard Of’ list

National magazine honors Blue Ridge town for folk music and back-to-the-land traditions

TOPEKA, Kan. (Jan. 4, 2011) — Floyd, Va., has earned a spot on Mother Earth News’ fifth annual “Great Places You’ve (Maybe) Never Heard Of” list. Mother Earth News, the leading magazine dedicated to sustainable living, features six communities in its February-March issue, [...]

By Gary Boyd
January 5th, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: News Stories
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Slow Road Home

Back when I first started dreaming my “Mountain Dreams” I stumbled across Fred First’s blog Fragments From Floyd at about the time he began talking about publishing his first book. I ordered a pre-publication copy and waited for it to arrive…After reading it I wrote the following on this blog and pushed out to Amazon [...]

By Gary Boyd
September 15th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Bookshelf, Mountain Dreamers
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