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Jon Coulthard: soars and boards

An obsession with skateboarding and the need for travel have taken Jon Coulthard from Emory, Virginia, to New York City, Colorado, Southern California and at least 30 overseas locations.

In This Issue

• Christopher McElroy: Glass artist Christopher McElroy was born and reared in Abingdon, Virginia. He says that early in his life he made a "strong connection" with fire.
• Art for Youth Spotlight: Hannah Duncan Hannah Duncan isn't old enough to remember when "Kodak Moments" was the marketing slogan for that camera brand.
• Shirley Jones at Barter for one night She's been a Rodgers and Hammerstein ingenue, an Oscar-winning actress, the coolest mom of the 1970s and the author of a juicy tell-all book.
• AAME lecture focuses on new museum Peyton Boyd and Michael Haslam, detailing their work and the challenges in adapting the historic former car dealership into a modern exhibit facility.

A! Extra

• Nurturing Music in Bristol Like a beast, world war first reared its head in July 1914. Ford built its first T Model car six years prior. Woodrow Wilson served as president of the United States.
• Region, state benefit as film industry grows in Virginia Today, the town looks much as it always has — cars line Wood Avenue, the town's main street, and visitors tour the Southwest Virginia Museum State Park and buy a book at the town's bookstore, Tales of the Lonesome Pine.
• Bristol Public Library invites artists to exhibit at Bristol Public Library The Bristol Public Library has issued an invitation to artists to exhibit in its gallery during 2015.
• Chuck Mead slated to appear solo at the Down Home in Johnson City on Nov. 12 Kansan Chuck Mead's country music odyssey took root singing solo in the window of Nashville's famed Tootsie's on lower Broadway.
• Concert to benefit the big C ... CARE You have cancer. Such a diagnosis seems to freeze the mighty hands of time.
• Dogwood Sculpture donated to King University in memory of alumnus Max Weaver With a chill in the air, family members of the late Max Weaver gathered at Nicewonder Hall on the main campus of King University for the installation of a sculpture with special meaning.
• Little bookstore is a must-see in Big Stone Gap, Virginia When you drive around Big Stone Gap, Virginia, you can almost sense the literary world.
• Barter Theatre announces biggest season ever for 2015 plus a new venue arters Theatre unveils its show schedule for the 2015 season, creating the biggest season in the history of the theatre.