You Can’t Go Home Again (Well… Maybe You Can)

Joan Vannorsdall stands on Pine Street overlooking the Town of Clifton Forge and the railyards that wind their way through the Alleghany Highlands.

Twenty-three years after she left a small dying town – at least in part to be able to write a novel based on that town – a former Roanoker has gone back to Clifton Forge to begin anew . . . again.

The Brainiacs

Morgan Leeson

These Roanoke Valley 2014 high school graduates are perhaps best known for their cerebral prowess, but there’s a lot more to them than that.