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Archive for January, 2010

snow

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Snow is snowy when it’s snowing
I’m sorry it’s slushy when it’s going
from Winter Morning Poem by Ogden Nash
Husband and I took a walk this afternoon through Scratch Ankle. We should have done this earlier when the sun was out, he said. But we couldn’t see then, it was too bright, I said. And we’da [...]

Potpourri – Winter’s warmth

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Like everywhere else in this part of Virginia winter has dug in its heels here in Craig County and appears to be content to stick around for a while. An ice storm came through last night leaving crystallized mountain tops and slick roads closing schools once again.  But then that’s January for you especially here [...]

A Little Bit of Craig County History

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

….And it was a stately courthouse that Craig County built!
The County Justices received their commissions on April 4th and were sworn in at the first meeting on April 24, 1851. Barely into the business of running the new county, the seventeen Justices of the Peace had to turn their attention to appointing a committee to [...]