Joan Vannorsdall
The venerable showplace has come back from near-oblivion to become a destination.
In its former life the Masonic hosted the likes of Roy Rogers and the Drifters.
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.

