Virginia Folklife Newsletter
For National Arts and Humanities month the Old Church Gallery made note in Kathleen Ingoldsby’s recent “Backstories & Backyards” column in the Floyd Times. The October “Timber-r-r!” column takes a…
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Remembering Freeman Cockram
January 13, 1937 – July 08, 2024. Freeman Alvis Cockram, 87, of Floyd, passed away on July 8, 2024. He and Helen Reed Cockram enjoyed sixty-five years of marriage. Freeman…
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Old Church Gallery Receives Grant Award
The Old Church Gallery (OCG) is very pleased to announce that it is the recipient of a Virginia Humanities Rapid Grant. This award will help support our Digital Legacy Plan…
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Our “Engaging Appalachia” Book Chapter
“Engaging Appalachia: A Guidebook for Building Capacity and Sustainability” newly published from University Press of Kentucky features a Floyd County chapter all about our “Roots with Wings” oral history program…
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Welcome to our new website!
We have news and are dancing with joy! The Old Church Gallery is pleased to introduce our brand-new website, a comprehensive information resource for our collections, exhibits, and activities. After…
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Blog News Archive
You’ll find our current news, activities, and announcements here, from Spring 2018 to the present. For earlier posts beginning in 2010, please visit http://floydstorycenter.blogspot.com/
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Annual Giving Day – June 23
Dear Roots with Wings Friend, Today’s post is more than our usual blog post. Today’s post is a bit more. See the one-minute movie link below which highlights our efforts…
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Intern Salute
Since the beginning of the Floyd Story Center at the Old Church Gallery’s Roots with Wings Oral History Project, Radford University Anthropology and Sociology students have been both foundation and…
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How Do Y’all Talk?
Greetings everyone, hope you all have had a wonderful week. A picture truly generates 1,000 words and we take that into careful consideration. Physical things such as pictures or artifacts…
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Technology New and Old
Hello everyone! As we mentioned last week, we really appreciate holding our workshops in the high school library where we make good use of the computer display technology. But last…
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Crucial Question Creation
Interviewing is a science and an art. Thought and heart go into creating questions that encourage our elders to tell their stories in the ways they want to tell them….
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Back in the Swing of Things!
The Roots with Wings Oral History Project is back in full swing in Spring 2020. Remember the simple swing you had as a kid — a rope with an old…
