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Train through Glen Ellyn, 1950

Train through Glen Ellyn, 1950

Samuel Hope Wells playing the .... Lamp by Susan Icove.

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A Child Evacuee Becomes an Unknown Casualty of World War II

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The heart of Floyd, Va.

Prologue: Floydiana--What, How, Why, Who.

Prologue: Floydiana–What, How, Why, Who.

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Floydiana Table of Contents

Prologue: Floydiana–What, How, Why, Who.
1. Portraits of Floyd.
2. Came Here I: James Lucas Tompkins, born 1834.
3. Downtown Floyd at its Best.
4. Glimpses I: Seen and Seer.
5. Left Here: “The Strong-Phillips Family, 1905,” by the Rev. Harry L. Strong.
6. Footsteps in Floyd I: Rambles in Country & Town.
7. Floyd Time vs. Make Time.
8. From Here I: “Downtown Floyd of Yesteryear,” by Lucille T. Nolen.
9. Roads to Erstwhile.
10. From Here IV: “The Loud Staccato of Needles,” by Lucille T. Nolen.
11. Glimpses II: Spectacles, Acoustacles, the Ro’ & Willie.
12. From Here II: “I Just Wasn’t Born to Be One,” by Margie Keith.
13. Two Counties, High & Low.
14. Tails & Wings I: “She was Made that Way by People!”
15. From Here III: “Two Brothers, One Pair of Hands,” by Judy Nolen Hylton.
16. Places I: Jaunts from the Tricolor.
17. From Here III: Virginia (“Pat”) Price: “I Tried to Meet the Needs of Others”
18. Glimpses III: Roads, Sky, Ghosts, Nameless Ice.
19. From Here V: “Willadean H. Hylton, Making Production,” by Shayley Martin.
20. Once Upons.
21. From Here VI: “A Deep Sense of Community,” by W.R. (Bill) Gardner, Jr.
22. Textures I: Scrape, Squeeze, or Rub.
23. Footsteps in Floyd II: “Earth Class.”
24. “Where Would I Be?” by R. Wells, and “Bootleg Barbecue,” by Laurel Brooke.
25. Came Here IV: “Celestial Gatherings of the 1980s,” by Jayn Avery.
26. Glimpses IV: Deer, Guns, Scenes, Good-bye.
27. Tails & Wings II: Randahl and the Night Visitors.
28. Textures II: Your Guess.
29. Places II: Bassoon, Tune, Moon.
30. Came Here V: Fred & Ann First, Solstice 2013.
31. Solid Geometry.
32. Glimpses V: Winter Wanes.
33. “The Raw, Direct Experience of Sound.”
34. Tech, Boy, “Astrnot.”
35. Restore the Ro’ & Willie Depot!
36. Came Here VIII: “With All my Possessions on my Back,” by Jack Wall.
37. Footsteps in Floyd III: “What will Happen Today?” by Sarah Vandenberg; “It is We who Trespass,” by Becky Pomponio.”
38. From Here VIII: David Allen, Hanatuskee: “I Thought of a School.”
39. “Stoney Reality.”
40. Came Here VII: Ed Gralla, “The Un-Malled Life.”
41. Tails & Wings III: Fauna & Fauxna.
42. Colors: The Immanent Rainbow.
43. Glimpses VI: Crossed Paths, Rituals, Rollin’.
44. Places III: Grinds & Finds.
45. Came Here VI: “Hippies are from California,” by Colleen Redman.
46. Anónimo: Undocumented Immigrant.
47. Textures III: Historical-Tactile.
48. Footsteps in Floyd IV: “Never Again!” by Bj Bauermeister, and “You Wanna Race?” by R. Wells
49. Came Here III: Nii Anang, “Everybody Welcomed Me.”
50. Rustiques & Young’uns.
51. Came Here II: “Schoolbus,” by Val DePillo.
52. “Cookie?”
53. Tails & Wings IV: “You Alone…will be Able to Fly.”
54. From Here VII: “Spinning with Eden’s Flock,” by Elizabeth Shelor.
55. Glimpses VII: FARMERS’, Winter, Crossing.
Epilogue: Floydiana Mill Locks its Doors.
Appendix 1. Floyd and Ned in 2008: Two Mountain Characters.
Appendix 2. Betty “Sunny” Bernardine: A Girl Grows in Warrenville.

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