1. My favorite dust sprinkling Blue Fairy walks on clouds.

2. View of the Floyd Country Store from the newly renovated Station at Locust Street, which was celebrating their Grand Opening with tours. The building, once home of Mama Lizzardo’s Restaurant, combines studio businesses, a tasting room, restaurant, and apartments upstairs. It’s very impressive inside and out and the tour was a highlight of the day.

3. The Floyd Artist Association moved from Art Under the Sun and has a new gallery in the Station. The group also had an outside booth for the day (pictured). Tina Liza Jones (far right), a FAA member, led a group in an old time jam.

4. Looking down from one of the Station’s balconies onto Jubilee venders selling pottery, clothing, jewelry, art, food, and more.

5. A Wizard of Oz wind blew up and vendors helped other vendors hold the forts down.

6. Veterans raising money for veteran causes selling paper poppy flowers as a jamboree mountaineer passes by.

7. Young Actors Coop and Floyd belly dancers paraded through downtown bringing whimsy and theatrics to the event.

8. The first annual Floyd Jubilee was also a celebration of the new Warren Lineberry Memorial Park, named for a Floyd judge and active community member who passed away in 2003, and was brought to us by The Partnership for Floyd citizen group. There was general frolicking on the lawn all day, in this case to the tunes of Upland Express.

9. It was a great turnout and I think everyone who attended would agree the Jubilee was a success. There were tractor rides and a garden Par-Tea on the lawn of one historic home. I was sorry I missed some of the other musical performances, Rob Neurirch’s storytelling at the Hotel Floyd amphitheater stage, and the Hollerin’ Contest (but Sally gave us a good sample of the hollerin’ at the Café del Sol Spoken Word later that night).

~ Colleen Redman is a writer from Floyd who blogs daily at looseleafnotes.com