Blue Ridge Country magazine editor at large (and former editor) Cara Ellen Modisett grew up in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and was introduced to the magazine by her uncle, an attorney and photographer, when she was in college.
My husband and I rounded the corner from Pop's Ice Cream last Saturday night to see Jason Garnett up on a ladder, replacing a fluorescent in the Grandin Theatre marquee. "One bulb was a 'daylight' bulb and the rest were 'cool white,'" he explained later, and it was bugging him. "I was fixing it so they would all be uniformly the same."
Some history: The Grandin was built in 1931 and first opened in 1932; it operated as a movie theater until the mid-1970s and then was home to (live stage company) Mill Mountain Theatre, then reopened as a movie theater and live music hall in the early 1980s. In the mid-'80s its new owner, Julie Hunsaker, brought in art house, indie and foreign films. The theater closed in 2001, but community support and a matching grant from the city allowed it to reopen, renovated, a year later.
