“Step right, rock forward and quarter turn to the left,” Susie Buckner melodiously instructed a room full of students, young and old, who kicked up their heels Friday evening as they learned the basic steps of line dancing. 

It was a sunny day, bright and clear. The surf beat against the hull of the USS Missouri. The world around the battleship was tranquil and serene.
Thousand, though, teemed on the deck. Some had duties. Many others had cameras. Nearly everyone felt a deep sense of impending peace. 

Once I read of a fictitious e-mail mix-up. A man e-mailed his wife from a Florida motel where she was to join him the next day on vacation. In typing his wife’s e-mail address, the man mistyped one letter and the e-mail went instead to a minister’s widow who had just returned from her husband’s funeral. The misaddressed e-mail read, “Dear, I Arrived down here last night. It is unbearably hot, but I cannot wait for your arrival tomorrow.” The widow immediately fainted.

John Green writes plays that stick with you.
The words and actions of the actors last longer than the fleeting on-stage moment. They nag at you, make you think, trouble you, frustrate you. That’s one of the reasons the playwright of “Doubting Thomas” and “The Liquid Moon,” both of which were sponsored by the Washington County News, has grown used to controversy.

We live in a world were the term “reality” usually means anything but. Take the popular CBS television show “Survivor.” It has little to do with reality or surviving. That’s why it’s so refreshing to pay a visit Fort Chiswell Middle School’s reality store. The store is a fun event for eighth-graders that helps to drive home important life lessons. Students pick a career and set off to make fiscal sense of the working world. 

The Upper Tennessee River Roundtable and the Appalachian RC&D are offering a Tri-State Watershed Conference

A dear deer tale

It was 1942. Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor a year ago. World War II was in full swing. And Verna Mahaffey’s blood, like many Americans’, was running red, white and blue.