Monthly Archives: June 2013

Part Three – Talk Given by Bobby Waid, Mayor of Fincastle

In this segment of our Video Interview, Bobby Waid lists off all the families who were members of St. Mark’s church…and tells of how everyone was expected to do something useful.  He was expected to become a member of the … Continue reading

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Part two – Talk Given by Bobby Waid, Mayor of Fincastle

In Part two of our video interview series with Bobby Waid, Mayor of Fincastle, Bobby starts telling about the church organist, Viola Painter, and of her custom of leaving the church at the end on one hour (often before the final … Continue reading

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Part One – Talk given by Bobby Waid, Mayor of Fincastle

As part of a project to collect oral histories from some of our older residents, the Episcopal Church Women (ECW) of St. Mark’s Episcopal, in Fincastle, invited Bobby Waid, Mayor of Fincastle and lifelong resident of the town, to speak … Continue reading

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