Bibliograph

Blue Ridge chronicles, a decade of dispatches from southwest Virginia, Rex Bowman

Type

Label

Blue Ridge chronicles, a decade of dispatches from southwest Virginia, Rex Bowman

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Blue Ridge chronicles

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Rex Bowman

Series statement

American chronicles

Sub title

a decade of dispatches from southwest Virginia

Summary

Many of the highlanders in Virginia's western mountains live in small communities with names such as Stonebruise, Novelty, and Wangle Junction, and here their stories are chronicled by one of their own, Floyd County native and Pulitzer-nominated journalist Rex Bowman, roving reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Colorful characters abound, from folks in Independence who have a decades-old tradition of racing outhouses, to the brawlers in St. Paul who once gave the town a reputation for world-class wickedness, to the purveyors of Roanoke's Texas Tavern who have never in seventy years put ketchup on their hamburgers. Blue Ridge Chronicles is a delightful look at how the lively have lived in Southwest Virginia's backcountry

Target audience

adult

Classification