I’m fairly certain Black Friday is why the terrorists and the French hate us. I can’t say for sure, since I don’t know any terrorists or French people on a first-name basis. But I doubt I miss my guess by far.

The open road is a long road.
Two Wytheville residents saw the United States from coast to coast this summer as finishers of the Four Corners Motorcycle Tour.

Every year at this time, I always like to publicly express what I’m most thankful for.  While I like to include different things each time, I can never sufficiently reiterate my eternal gratitude for the most crucial element in my life which is family and friends.  I don’t know what I would do without the loving support I receive from these wonderful people.  I am especially grateful to my parents and grandparents who have sacrificed so much of their own lives so that I may be cared for properly.  Without their undying love and dedication, I would not be able to survive. 

Paranormal investigators have been hanging out in Wythe County recently.
The Virginia Paranormal Society on Oct. 26 conducted its second investigation of the Major Graham Mansion. The group was joined by the West Virginia Ghost Hunters.

Tickets are still available for the U.S. Air Force Heritage of America Band Concert on Friday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. at the Wytheville Meeting Center. There is limited seating for the free event sponsored by the Wytheville Enterprise.

My father brought my sister a bike home in the back seat of the tan Oldsmobile when I wasn’t quite 5 years old.
She was 9 and I think it might have been her first bike. It was a girls bike, with a banana seat and little iridescent streamers poking from the handlebars.

Ghost hunters converged onto the Major Grahams Mansion in Wythe county searching for spirit activity last month.
The historical property located in Grahams Forge has many folklore stories that make it a prime spot for possible paranormal activity.

It’s all the government’s fault.
Most of the time, hearing that all-too familiar cry, we cringe. We don’t necessarily believe that the government owes us anything or should provide us anything other than a few basic freedoms, such as the right to assemble and petition for a redress of grievances. The freedom to worship or not worship as we so choose. Those sorts of things. The government isn’t to blame when it does what it’s supposed to do. And there lies the problem.

Walking the walkways

My neighbors Laird and Sylvia smiled at me with sunny enthusiasm, as we stood in their yard on a September Saturday. I was feeling daunted because of the latest commercial threat to some-beloved-place. In this case, our own neighborhood in Wytheville, where a developer was proposing to build a Walgreens one block upstream along the creek that runs through my yard.