Bluegrass Festival Concert Delights Bluefield Crowd
The Comcast Mountain Festival featured a bluegrass concert at the Bluefield Auditorium. Ernie Thacker and Route 23, plus Bent Hickory, drew praise from officials and attendees who forecast around 800 attendees. Local fans praised bluegrass as family friendly and uplifting.
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C. Kenna Amos
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bluefield
Sunshine
Marc Meachum
Greater
Bent Hickory
Randolph Evans
Princeton
Appalachian Highlands Music Association
Jim Davis
Rock
Kenneth Roland
Esther Hartwell
Lashmeet
Ernie Thacker
Route 23
Bluefield Auditorium
Bluefield Families Enjoy Festival Rides and Food
Tables of details show Bluefield residents including Mikala Williams and Renesha Mason at a festival with bumper cars and the Tornado ride. Grandparents Tina Simmons and Jim Bradshaw share ribs and fish at a Mt. Olive Baptist Church tent while six to seven minute helicopter rides wow spectators from Bowen Field. Chance Stress, 5, and Tyanna Canellas, 9, describe the helicopter view as a highlight.
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Mikala Williams
Bluefield
Tina Simmons
Jim Bradshaw
Renesha Mason
Simmons
Bradshaw
Mt. Olive Baptist Church
Rock-it the Robot
Terry Chatman
Big Sandy
Philly
Peggy Dotson
Jeff Dotson
Zakkary
Bowen Field
Chance
Anthony Stress
Welch
Tyanna Canellas
Marion
Dennis Ferris
Kenna Amos
Kamos
Bottonline
D-Day Memorial plans bronze plaques for fallen soldiers
The National D-Day Memorial Foundation will dedicate the first bronze plaques on Memorial Day to honor 1944 D-Day casualties. Researcher Carol Tuckwiller lists 4142 killed with about 300 more to add, far below the often cited 5600 to 12000. About 65 plaques ordered for the central plaza of 232 needed for all fatalities.
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Mass
Bedford
U.S
Europe
Foundation
Carol Tuckwiller
Tuckwiller
William A. McIntosh
McIntosh
Memorial Day events in Princeton and Athens area programs
The War Museum in Princeton hosts a Memorial Day service from 2 to 4 p.m. with speakers Bill Tarter and Walt Armstrong, both from Tazewell, and WW II veterans, clergy Rev Eddie Nash presiding, free admission and refreshments. A Memorial Day picnic runs 5 to 8 p.m. at Athens Town Hall, sponsored by the Athens Fire and Rescue Department and its new auxiliary open to the public for membership, to thank firefighting families.
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Bill Tarter
Walt Armstrong
Tazewell
Eddie Nash
War Museum
Memorial Building
Princeton
Athens Town Hall
Athens Fire and Rescue Department
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Teresa Weatherly
Lori
Firster
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