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Sponsored: Folkmoot Summerfest 2021
Folkmoot, North Carolina’s Official International Folk Festival, returns with the reimagining of its Summerfest, scheduled from Thur., July 22 to Sun., July 25. Read more
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Joshua Black Wilkins photo
Kindness is My Religion
When the entire music industry shutdown for the foreseeable future in March 2020, many artists and bands didn’t know what to do with themselves. For most, all they’d known for years was rolling down the road to the next town. Read more
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On the Tracks
Named after the Ecusta Mill in Pisgah Forest, a now-defunct producer of cigarette and bible paper, the trail will follow a rail line constructed by the Brevard Railway, Telegraph, and Telephone Company in 1894. Read more
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Courtesy of Bridget Donaldson, Virginia Transportation Research Council
Searching for Safe Passage
Growing up in eastern Kentucky, Frances Figart loved any chance to glimpse the wildlife roaming those Appalachian foothills—except when the sightings occurred after the creatures had become roadkill, something that occurred all too frequently. Read more
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Flower Power
The Southern Appalachians are home to a beautiful array of plants with a diversity that is unmatched by any other location in the world. During the summer, you can’t throw a stone without hitting a plant in flower. Read more
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The Old Days and the Old Ways
In A Smoky Mountain Boyhood: Memories, Musings, and More Jim Casada takes his readers back in time to the land and the people of Western North Carolina of the mid-twentieth century. Read more
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Sponsored: Folkmoot Summerfest 2021
Folkmoot, North Carolina’s Official International Folk Festival, returns with the reimagining of its Summerfest, scheduled from Thur., July 22 to Sun., July 25. Read more
Jul 12, 2021
12:00 AM
Courtesy of Jim Casada
Trout on the Table
One of the more frequently used quotations from 19th century wilderness wanderer, writer, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau suggests that “some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.” Read more
Jun 1, 2021
12:00 AM
Joshua Black Wilkins photo
Kindness is My Religion
When the entire music industry shutdown for the foreseeable future in March 2020, many artists and bands didn’t know what to do with themselves. For most, all they’d known for years was rolling down the road to the next town. Read more
Jun 1, 2021
12:00 AM
The Highest-Elevation Fire Tower East of the Mississippi River
At one time there were 10, strategically scattered across the Great Smoky Mountains. Ten fire towers, all but one constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps, manned by wardens during the spring and fall fire seasons to watch for wildfires. Read more
Jun 1, 2021
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Warren Bielenberg/NPS photo
Jun 1, 2021
12:00 AM
Birth of A Written Language
Sequoyah, born circa 1776 at the village of Tuskeegee, announced in 1809 in his blacksmith shop that the Cherokee could create a writing system to put their Cherokee words on paper. He spent 12 years of his life trying to create a writing system. Read more
Jun 1, 2021
12:00 AM
Group Camping With Kids
Not everyone has the luxury of having the Smokies and the Blue Ridge Mountains in their backyard. Growing up north of Asheville, I didn’t realize how lucky I was. Read more
Jun 1, 2021
12:00 AM
Courtesy of Bridget Donaldson, Virginia Transportation Research Council
Searching for Safe Passage
Growing up in eastern Kentucky, Frances Figart loved any chance to glimpse the wildlife roaming those Appalachian foothills—except when the sightings occurred after the creatures had become roadkill, something that occurred all too frequently. Read more
Jun 1, 2021
12:00 AM
Flower Power
The Southern Appalachians are home to a beautiful array of plants with a diversity that is unmatched by any other location in the world. During the summer, you can’t throw a stone without hitting a plant in flower. Read more
Jun 1, 2021
12:00 AM
‘Connecting Legacies’
From 1933-1957, Black Mountain College was formed and thrived within the context of its seemingly unconventional methods and ways, only to simply disappear into the fond memories of those who passed through the magical space. Read more
Jun 1, 2021
12:00 AM
The Old Days and the Old Ways
In A Smoky Mountain Boyhood: Memories, Musings, and More Jim Casada takes his readers back in time to the land and the people of Western North Carolina of the mid-twentieth century. Read more
Jun 1, 2021
12:00 AM
