By Tonia Moxley
The Roanoke Times
March 30, 2007
Summary: A slave cooking expert will share some recipes and knowledge today and Saturday.
BLACKSBURG — Growing up, Michael Twitty couldn’t understand why his grandparents grew tobacco and cotton on little plots in the city. Or why “people can remember the name of a watermelon they grew but can’t remember [...]

By Tonia Moxley
Appalachian Voice
Spring 2002
BLACKSBURG, Va. – Many people know the story of Mary Draper Ingles’ harrowing escape from Shawnee captors and her heroic 800-mile trek from the Ohio river back to her home in present-day Radford, Va. Her story has been immortalized in novels, films and an outdoor drama performed annually in Radford.
But it [...]