Roseland Nelson County, Virginia By Tommy Stafford It’s amazing how fast 16 years can go by when you’re an adult, and you’re adulting. Not so much when you’re a kid and you’re waiting on the 16th birthday so you can drive! April 1, 2021 makes 16 years to the day we launched then Nelson County […]
Click play above to listen now. Schuyler, Virginia & Memphis, Tennessee In what’s become our annual tradition here at BRL, enjoy this special radio interview from the December 2011 Christmas season as Nelson native Earl Hamner, Jr. talks with BRL Publisher Tommy Stafford and then Memphis KWAM 990 Radio host, Earle Farrell. Earle now has […]
Click play above to listen now. Schuyler, Virginia & Memphis, Tennessee In what’s become our annual tradition here at BRL, enjoy this special radio interview from the December 2011 Christmas season as Nelson native Earl Hamner, Jr. talks with BRL Publisher Tommy Stafford and Memphis KWAM 990 Radio host, Earle Farrell. Press the orange play […]
Central Virginia Blue Ridge After three days or rain, we finally get a break on Wednesday with sunshine and much warmer temps returning to the area. We dry out for the next couple of days and the heat increases. There’s a chance for scattered afternoon thunderstorms returning to the forecast by Thursday night into Friday. […]
Nelson County, Virginia Ten years ago today something pretty special began. We’d left the TV news business the year before and on April 1, 2005 we started Nelson County Life Magazine. For 8 years we brought you the stories and photos from all over Nelson. Back then it was just Tommy & Yvette. Today we’ve […]
Memphis, Tennessee & Schuyler, Virginia Enjoy this special radio interview from the December 2011 Christmas season as Nelson native Earl Hamner, Jr. talks with BRL Publisher Tommy Stafford and Memphis KWAM 990 Radio host, Earle Farrell. Listen for over an hour as Earl reminisces about his career, life in the Virginia Blue Ridge and more. […]
Afton Nelson County, VA The snowfall is over, but it’s still covering the ground in many places on and near the Blue Ridge. I was on live Monday with our media partners at CBS-19 in Charlottesville. Me and the anchors chatted it up about the 6+ inches of snow here in Nelson. Most of you […]
Lovingston Nelson County, Virginia 25 years. A quarter century. That’s how long Lynn Coffey of Love, Virginia cranked out her Backroads Newspaper, every month. Open publication – Free publishing – More nelson county Lynn writes every month here in the printed edition of Nelson County Life Magazine. She brings the true stories of the mountains […]
Nelson County, VA Memphis, TN Studio City, CA Nelson County’s own Earl Hamner, and founder of The Waltons will be on KWAM 990 radio in Memphis, TN this Friday afternoon just after 4PM eastern time. Earl will be appearing with NCL Publisher, Tommy Stafford. Tommy was on air in the Memphis TV market back in […]
Lovingston Nelson County, Virginia Sunday afternoon three people from different walks of publishing life in Nelson County took part in a panel discussion at the Nelson Library as a part of a program by The Oakland Museum Program Committee and the Nelson County Historical Society. Lynn Coffey, writer and publisher of Backroads magazines and Backroads […]
