Oct 14, 2007 | 10:47 PM
Category:
Entertainment
REIDSVILLE Downtown & Antique Alley Street Festival
Below are some photos from the 16th Annual REIDSVILLE Downtown & Antique Alley Street Festival. Which was held this year on October 13th. Some estimate that over 20,000 people turned out for a great day of fun under beautiful blue skies. More than 350 cars parked on the downtown streets, for one the best car shows in this area, a few can be seen in the pics below. Present on the streets also, was booth after booth of arts, crafts, antique’s, & fine festival foods of all types. Two stages provided music of all kinds for everyone to enjoy. Plus, the youngsters had a special Kidz Zone, with pony & train rides, and games to play. In addition, this year we had a new Scottish highland games area, with demonstrations, that I think everyone enjoyed.
above-One of the many food vendors at the festival.
above-Some of the antique engines on display.
Triad Bloodhound Search Team.
above- Sheriff Page, outstanding crime fighter & crowd pleaser.
1934 Chevy Coupe
If you didn’t get to attend the Festival this time & think you would like to next year, it should be at the same place, about the same time next fall.
Jun 5, 2007 | 11:58 PM
Category:
News
Through the night of June 5th paratroopers in England boarded C-47 airplanes to be flown to their drop zones behind the enemy lines, of occupied France.
The troopers were weighed down with equipment and weapons; odds against them surviving were great. Meteorologists had called for a calm night. But as the planes came close to the coast of France, they came upon clouds that scatter many of them. Also because of flak, many pilots increased their speed and altered their altitude. Despite these hazardous conditions, the green light was given for the men to jump.
Units found themselves scattered all over. Nevertheless, the paratroopers gathered their men and went in search of German targets in the dark. The unintended effect of the wide dispersal of the paratroopers led to great confusion for German commanders. ..
Also our fleet of ships was moving toward the coast of France. Our battleships began their bombardment of German positions.
Higgins' boats began unloading the men on the beaches. The beaches were code named Sword, Juno, Gold, Utah and Omaha. German gunners tried to hold back the invasion force, costing the Allies thousands of casualties.
But the allies succeeded, gaining a hold on France. Men and materials were hurried ashore for the long road ahead. The brutal fighting in Europe would go on for almost another year.
D-Day, June 6, 1944, will live on famously.
Newspaper clipping, WW 2 – Preview of Airborne D-Day invasion.
Photo of my Uncle Gordon, 82nd AIRBORNE, WW 2
V-MAIL - from the hospital from my Uncle. He was in the hospital after being wounded during the D-DAY operations.
Above are a few items from my family that I added to the News Photo page before Memorial Day.
Thought I would place them here again in a blog post tonight, after I was looking at them again today & holding his dog tags, medals & things… & thinking about what he must have been thinking & doing 63 years ago.
If you have any comments, or stories about D-Day or WW 2 soldiers please post them in the comment area. I would enjoy reading them.
Jan 26, 2007 | 4:27 PM
Category:
Weather
Van, I’ve been enjoying your “this day in Weather History” that you added to the weather forecast.
After I seen it on the News last night, about the big snow we had on January 24 & 25th, 2000, I added some old photos from that snow to the Weather Photos Album.
They are of Me & my daddy, and my dog Zeke, playing around out in that snow in Rockingham County. Zeke was featured as a FOX8 Pet of the week when he was 5 years old, back in 1998. He had about one day to live at the shelter when I adopted him. Since then he has traveled no telling how many thousands of miles, camping, hiking & mountain trout fishing, etc. And he turned out to be the smartest & best dog I’ve ever owned or known. He easily learned several hundred words, tricks and/or commands. Really, the Perfect Dog.
So anyhow just thought I’d add the picture’s & let you know we really like the new Weather History segments.
THANKS
