We just finished new menus & signage for JB’s Pizza & Subs.

If you need signs or menus printed, get in touch with us!

If you need pizza, go to JB’s!

We’re happy to contribute to the 2024 Saturday Afternoon Social, benefit for the Alleghany Historical – Genealogical Society, Inc. Our “Golden Ticket” basket includes 10 books and 2 sets of note cards. Come to the fundraiser on the 17th and try to win the basket. But, if you don’t, you can order all these titles (and many more) at starroutebooks.com

Trails Through Time, by Steve Sudderth
Brinegar Cabin, An Historic Resouce
Recipes That Raised Us, Vol. 1
Recipes That Raised Us, Vol. 2
Pioneer Settlers of Grayson County Virginia, by B.F. Nuckolls
The Life Experience of MGySgt. John Ulus Irwin, Jr. USMC (Ret.)
Foot Prints… on the Sands of Time, by Dr. A.B. Cox
Stories I Grew Up With, by Lonnie C. Jones
Paths & Passages, by Jeff Halsey
Sacred Spaces, Special Places, by Jeff Halsey
2 (different) sets of 10 note cards with Regional Photography, 5″ x 7″, with envelopes

There are also several other items donated. Visit the AHGS site to see a complete list of donors & sponsors.

This summer, we published a three-volume treasury of stories, poems, and illustrations from the pen and imagination of the iconic naturalist, artist and author, Emma Bell Miles (1879–1919), about life in her beloved, southern Appalachian mountains:

• The Spirit of the Mountains and Select Works of Emma Bell Miles
• Our Southern Birds and the Fountain Square Conversations by Emma Bell Miles
• Stories of the Mountains – Selected Short Stories by Emma Bell Miles

Miles was a wife and mother whose poems and short stories appeared in national magazines in the early 1900s. She sold her first poem to Harper’s Monthly in 1904, but was probably best known for the book The Spirit of the Mountains, that she published a year later.

Her adult life was filled with poverty and health issues. She endured a troubled marriage. She was interested in women’s rights and suffrage. Her work reflects those themes, but through her writing, she also asserts great and positive and complex ideas- both, in her descriptions of interpersonal situations and of the natural world.

Mrs. Miles passed away at the age of just 39 from tuberculosis. Her last effort, the book, Our Southern Birds, was published posthumously in 1922. It was adopted as a textbook by the State of Kentucky, and later by Tennessee.

We are proud to be able to help make available, once again, the timeless writings from this great author. For more information, and to purchase, visit www.starroutebooks.com.  

Under our Star Route Books imprint, we have just released the fourth and final book in The Stratford Oaks Tales: The Tale of Bella by Dr. Suzanne Mellow-Irwin of Sparta, NC.

The Stratford Oaks Tales is a series of stories about the good life for the animals at Stratford Oaks Farm. This book features Bella, a wild mustang from the rugged mountains of southeastern Nevada and her journey to a new home in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina.

The Tale of Bella features full-color images and a delightful narrative that describes the entire adoption process through the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro Program.

The books are available online at StarRouteBooks.com. For more information on Dr. Suzanne Mellow-Irwin, visit www.stratfordoakstales.com.