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…
Floyd Story Center
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/
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
Adventures in Omeka Database Software
This past June, with the assistance of a George Mason University graduate student intern, Tim Smith and Kathleen Ingoldsby began the process of developing a new online access tool for…
Semester’s End
Winding Up The past few months have been extraordinary for us. As a finale, on April 23 we four Radford University students were able to show off the Roots with…
Local History in the Community
Interviews to Hear and Read Pairs of ROOTS WITH WINGS Floyd County Public School teachers and Radford University students interviewed Floyd County grandparents, in-laws, good friends, and dads. After we…
Connecting with Our Community Partner
A Visit to the Old Church Gallery After everyone recovered from flu season and bad weather, we gathered at the Old Church Gallery for our weekly class. For the Radford University students and some…