Meet the Author: Ricky Cox - The Water-Powered Mills of Floyd County
Venue: Jessie Peterman Library, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Thursday, July 26, 2012
Time: 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free
Description:
Floyd County native and Radford University professor Ricky Cox, co-author of the newly published book "The Water-Powered Mills of Floyd County, VA", will give a talk and visual presentation about the book on Thursday, July 26 at 6:30 PM in the Jessie Peterman Library Community Room in Floyd.

In addition to Mr. Cox, representatives from the Floyd County Historical Society, the Floyd County Historical Preservation Trust and the Old Church Gallery will also make brief remarks about preserving and displaying Floyd’s past.

The late Frank Webb of Roanoke began documenting Floyd County mills in the 1980’s and Cox joined the research in 1992. The book was completed in 2010, 14 years after Webb’s death. Cox’s talk will include discussion of the locating and documenting of mills, collecting oral histories, preparing an historical overview and compiling it all into the book.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing at the program.

For more information, visit: http://www.montgomery-floyd.lib.va.us or call: (540) 745-2947.

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