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Falling Up
Actors know about "falling up": a split-second ignition from the wings, propelling entrance as a new character, an unwilled ascent to a different mode of being, an in-body experience that overlays preparation, opportunity, choice, or chance. Falling Up, the first and only full-length Floyd study, is a metaphor for humanity’s uncanny ability to rise from seeming disaster into rebirth. Floyd’s consistent succession of soars, stumbles, slides, or wrenches sings of triumph over odds. A modern Renaissance man, Floyd is our greatest living opera composer and librettist, a trained concert pianist, a master stage director, and a teacher. In Falling Up, Holliday offers an intimate account of the ...
Echoes of Our Past
A collection of articles from the author's newspaper column in the Minden Press-Herald, "Echoes of Our Past", discussing the people, places and events of the Civil War in the area surrounding Minden, Louisiana.
The Thompsons and Related Families
The Thompson Family The Thompson family originally hails from Scotland. The earliest known ancestor is Thomas Thompson, who was born in 1545 in Glasgow. Matthew Thompson (1692-1753) emigrated from County Donegal, Ireland to Philadelphia, in 1732. He then moved to Virginia in 1741. The Thompsons were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians.
Biographical Genealogies of the Virginia-Kentucky Floyd Families
William Floyd (ca. 1720-1789) was born in Accomac County, Virginia, a son or grandson of John Floyd. He became a suryveyor in an area now Amherst County, Virginia, and patented land there for his home. He married Abadiah Davis, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Hughes Davis, in 1747. They had twelve children. Record chiefly traces some of the descendants of their sons, Charles Floyd and Nathaniel Floyd, and their daughter, Sallie Floyd Powell. Descendants listed lived in Virginia, Kentucky, and elsewhere.
