Hello from Roanoke, VA

[Shipwreckbay]

Let me be the first to say welcome (from California). You will find much of interest and entertainment here.

I was born in Ca. but left there when I was a baby. Thanks for the welcome.

 

[Shipwreckbay]

Welcome!️

Thank you!

 

[Shipwreckbay]

Welcome from NC!

High neighbor and thank you.

 

[Shipwreckbay]

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I like Dixie!!! Thank you for the welcome.

 

[Shipwreckbay]

Hello from Austin, Texas.

As a child growing up in Baltimore, we'd escape the city about once per year by traveling to Uncle David's place in Roanoke. (south, on Buck Mountain Road)

He had a small (usually dry) creek running through the back yard with a little foot bridge you could cross and then face a very vertical hill climbing 4 or 5 stories in height. We'd shoot .22 rifles into the hillside.

Uncle David made the best tasting pancakes but they were never round. Aunt Betty would make apple turnovers.

David liked driving MG cars, flying RC airplanes and fishing cold, fast streams for rainbow trout. Sure miss THOSE good ol' days.

Welcome to the forum!



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Jay, thank you for the welcome. Buck Mountain Road has certainly changed. It has retained some of its' charm, but townhomes and condos now dot the hills. I bet those pancakes were good. Thanks again.

 

[Zack Miller]

Greetings from Texas. You live in some beautiful country. My youngest daughter graduated from Roanoke College.

We enjoyed the music at Floyd’s Country Store.

 

[Shipwreckbay]

Welcome aboard from central N.C. My late wife (I'm remarried) went to grad school at Hollins College, and I had a long time friend, now deceased, who'd grown up in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., not far away. He was a big railroad buff, from a railroad family, a Civil War scholar with ancestry in the Confederacy who married another Civil War scholar with ancestry in the GAR.

Thank you for the welcome neighbor. I live in SW County, so Hollins is across town from me, but I know the area well. Roanoke was a railroad town for a long, long time. They have transferred all of those jobs to Atlanta since the Southern RR bought the N&W. Kind of sad. Now our largest employer is the hospital.

 

[Shipwreckbay]

Welcome from Knoxville , I assume you go to Milan Tobacconist regularly?

Yes, I am a loyal customer of Milan. Renee and David provide the best customer service I have ever seen.

 

[Shipwreckbay]

Greetings from Texas. You live in some beautiful country. My youngest daughter graduated from Roanoke College.

We enjoyed the music at Floyd’s Country Store.

Thank you for the welcome. I hope you didn't get caught up in that freezing weather Texas just had. That was terrible.

 

[Zack Miller]

Thank you for the welcome. I hope you didn't get caught up in that freezing weather Texas just had. That was terrible.

We sustained no problems from the freeze, but three days after, our house was struck by lightning.

 

[rushx9]

Welcome from NC. My ex and 2 sons live in Roanoke. Nice to swing by Milan when I'm in town.

 

[garywlee]

Welcome from Northern VA!!!

Cheers

 

[mikethompson]

I have been a pipe smoker for about 1 year and am enjoying it. I am looking forward to meeting the members and participating in the discussions.

Welcome to the forum!

 

[Pipenwheels]

Welcome from Ohio!

 

[cshubhra]

Welcome ?