Events
Spring 2022 Junior College Trip
Our Junior Class had an opportunity to set foot on three very different campuses. During our overnight trip they visited the University of Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Randolph Macon College. They also spent some downtime in Carytown.
Spring Lycée Day 2022
Lycée Day topics this semester stretched across a variety of interests. We’d like to thank ALL of our presenters for their time, energy, and passion in sharing their hobbies and expertise with us during the these Spring Lycée sessions. Explore our other Lycée Days by clicking here.
CHS Fall 2021 Production of “The Tell-Tale Farce”
The Theater Department of Community High School presented two performances of Don Zolidis’ comedy, “The Tell-Tale Farce,” and had their audience rolling with laughter! Set in the Dowling’s drawing-room in the 1840s, the widow Dowling has hired Edgar Allan Poe to write a poem to commemorate her long-faded beauty. When her niece, Sarah Dowling’s suitor […]
Lycée Day Fall 2021
This Lycée Day students enjoyed classes from outside volunteers, parents, teachers, and each other. The topics spanned cooking, Model United Nations, physiology, game playing, ultimate frisbee, musicals, mythology, keyboards, Godzilla, and more!!! The entire CHS community also had the opportunity for a Q&A with representatives from the Roanoke Valley Rescue Mission to discuss issues concerning […]
News
Olchar E. Lindsann – The In-Appropriated Press
The In-Appropriated Press from Olchar E. Lindsann is the second, re-launched incarnation of the first Post-NeoAbsurdist journal The Appropriated Press, whose original run stretched from 2003-2006 and focused on the Columbus, Ohio Post-Neo community. The new series continues its raucous, diverse, and often willfully inane onslaught, splitting its focus between the Roanoke, Virginia community and the wider […]
The Autonomous Library
This site hosts the online catalogue of Olchar E. Lindsann’s archival library of micropress publications, which currently contains approximately 3,000 chapbooks and zines (1,700 catalogued so far). Its emphasis is on the anglophone avant-garde of the last 30 years, but it also contains significant amounts of material from Anarchist, Socialist, and other radical countercultures with […]
mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press
mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press is administered by Olchar E. Lindsann, and focuses its activity upon and among the international Post-Neo community, marginal writing communities, anti-capitalist avant-garde networks and the Eternal mail art Network. It also attempts to explore the connections between the avant-garde and other marginal communities such as Hermeticism and Occultism, Anarchist and Utopian Socialist networks, […]
Revenant Archive
The Revenant Archive, stewarded by Olchar E. Lindsann, attempts to chart and provide the materials for the detailed reconstruction of 19th Century avant-garde communities–a long, rich, and complex history that has been almost effaced from the communal memory of today’s Eternal Network of avant-garde counterculture. This DIY micro-archive is assembled, maintained, and designed to function […]
CHS Students Travel To France
Eleven students and two teachers traveled to France for a two week adventure which included an exchange with Lycée Privé Charles Péguy in Gorges, France. Click the button below to learn all about the areas they explored on their trip, including their time in Paris. Read about their Trip Here!
“Lorenzo by the Ghost Light” by Les Epstein
Les Epstein’s Lorenzo by the Ghost Light, published by Gnashing Teeth, is the follow-up to Sleep Cinematic: A Golem’s Quartet. His new book, “Teddy Orloff and the Three Onions,” is scheduled for a February 2024 release. The companion to the highly lauded Sleep Cinematic: A Golem’s Quartet, Lorenzo by the Ghost Light: A Spiel is a mock epic […]
Testing Wind Blade Shapes
The Roanoke Studies students tested different shapes for wind blades in an attempt to improve performance.
Fiction and Poetry Contest Winners!
Congratulations to two of our seniors for receiving honors from Roanoke College’s High School Fiction and Poetry Contest! Chloe A. has won Second Place for her story “A Poison Tree in Munich” and Oliver H. earned an honorable mention for his story “Scarecrow.” Look for Chloe’s story in an upcoming special issue of the Roanoke […]
Les Epstein in “Hope of Escape”
In “Hope of Escape,” Les Epstein plays the role of Lewis Tappen in this story about a mother and daughter who must plan their escape from enslavement after learning they are about to be sold and separated forever.
The Perfect Pizza
Rowan W worked on an independent study on pizza and the processes behind it. He grew different components in pizza from wheat to basil to garlic, and also researched the science behind pizza. He also studied the origins of the many different styles of pizza and tried them out. His experiments varied from pan to […]
Pi Day 2023
There were several Pi Day themed activities during our math classes. The calculus students took on the challenge of learning more about the wonderful number Pi. Focusing on its history, mathematical novelty, and fun facts about the number, they then each made presentations to inform other students and faculty of their findings. They also had […]
Saving the Yeast
How would you try to protect a strain of yeast that was particularly sensitive to UV light? Our Biology students designed their own experiments to compare methods. Is expired sunscreen okay? Would sunglasses work? How effective is UV blocking clothing? Would aloe vera provide the same protection as a sunscreen formula? Will spray sunscreen protect […]