Floyd Country Store: Fine Food? Yep

Collage of The Floyd Country Store sign, an ice cream sandwich, desserts, prepared dishes and grocery shelves.

Since husband-and-wife Dylan Locke and Heather Krantz took over the century-old music landmark, there’s been a remarkable and delightful change in the dining experience.

Chickens!

A four-panel collage of people with backyard chickens, including a woman holding a hen, eggs in a nest, and a woman feeding hens.

More Roanoke-area families are going out in the morning to fetch the eggs.

‘Truevine’: Brothers in Harm’s Way

Book cover for "Truevine" by Beth Macy, showing green crop rows under a blue sky with trees.

Beth Macy’s new book, rooted in Franklin County and with broad branches in Roanoke, offers a hard look at the circus in its ugly heyday, and at two brothers victimized by its yet-uglier power.

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