Greenbrier, Valley Quarterly

The 2012 Greenbrier Classic

In its first year, The Greenbrier Classic proved itself to be one of the great golf tournaments on the PGA TOUR. In fact, it won the PGA’s “Best in Class” award as the best golf tournament on TOUR in 2011. The Greenbrier Classic Concert Series elevates the tournament to a one-of-a-kind event that encapsulates the world of music entertainment and sports neatly wrapped into a week long event that draws tens of thousands daily.

Time in a Garden

When Joni Mitchell penned the lyrics to her classic 1969 song “Woodstock,” she was talking about the human urge to return to a perfect world—a green, peaceful place often symbolized by the Garden of Eden. Some people follow this urge more literally than others. They’re called gardeners.Since they arrived in the Greenbrier Valley in 1997 in a van filled with plants, Pat and Willa Izzo have been creating a mini-Eden on the land around their Greenbrier County home.

 

The John Marshall Expedition

It could have been a scene from another century—six men poling a batteau of pine and white oak down the Greenbrier River.

Indeed, it was a scene from another century, the travelers paying tribute to an expedition led by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall two hundred years ago, in the hope of
establishing a waterway transportation route from Virginia all the way to the Great Falls of the Kanawha at Gauley Bridge. These six men began their journey April 5th in Richmond, making their way through Virginia without much fanfare. That changed when they reached Alderson.