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Photo Essay, April 2024
Our readers share their photos of spring wildflowers Read more
Mar 25, 2024
12:00 AM
Cornbread's World of Wonders
No foodstuffs loom larger in mountain culinary traditions than the many and varied ways in which cornmeal is turned into cornbread. In that process a sort of wonderment takes place. Read more
Mar 25, 2024
12:00 AM
Stalking the Wild Asparagus, and Other Spring Edibles
For any of you who grew up with Euell Gibbons in your library, the above title will have a familiar ring. Euell Gibbons, born in 1911, is considered by many to have been a trailblazer of the third wave of the back-to-the-land movement. Read more
Mar 25, 2024
12:00 AM
New Lost Ages
At the core of any great singer-songwriter lies this inherent trait of stage presence, one where an entire room, no matter the size, is pulled in by this lyrical tractor beam—all eyes, emotions and energies aimed in one direction at a single voice. Read more
Mar 25, 2024
12:00 AM
The Best Medicine
I sat at a long table at Fontana Village’s Wildwood Grill, sinking my teeth into an enormous burger and enjoying a depth of peaceful happiness that I rarely achieve without a large dose of time in the woods like the one I’d just had. Read more
Mar 25, 2024
12:00 AM
On the Trail in the Smokies
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is often called a hiker’s park. And it’s true that, across the seasons, hordes of hikers take to the park’s 850 miles of established trails to immerse themselves in a mix of scenery, biodiversity and human history. Read more
Mar 25, 2024
12:00 AM
A Conversation with the Smokies' Chief Ranger
Originally from the mountains of Pennsylvania, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s new chief ranger, Daniel “Boone” Vandzura, grew up hunting, fishing and nurturing a love for the outdoors. Read more
Mar 25, 2024
12:00 AM
Mountain Melodies
As James Christian Pfohl walked through an overgrown field in Brevard, North Carolina, briars tugged at his shirt sleeves and sweat dripped from his brow. It was 1943, and he was about to establish the Brevard Music Center. Read more
Mar 25, 2024
12:00 AM
Those Delightful Daffodils
April flowers may bring May flowers, but when it comes to my beloved daffodils, those cold winters that I love to hate triggers a bounty of sunny yellow faces each spring. Read more
Mar 25, 2024
12:00 AM
A Portrait of an Appalachian Upbringing
Julia Nunnally Duncan is an award-winning freelance writer—who often contributes to this magazine—and author of 11 books of nonfiction, fiction and poetry who is a native of Western North Carolina whose hometown is Marion. Read more
Mar 25, 2024
12:00 AM
Decoration Day
My mother’s family faithfully observed Decoration Day at Montford Cove Baptist Church Cemetery. Read more
Mar 25, 2024
12:00 AM
The Big Sled
On weekday mornings, my mother always had the front room radio tuned to WBRM, our local AM station. When we woke to a deep snowfall, the radio announcer, Sid Carrigan, proclaimed: “Well, kids, you don’t have to go to school today." Read more
Jan 20, 2024
12:00 AM