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Grandfather Mountain
If you look toward the sky while driving down Highway 105 near Foscoe, North Carolina, you will see a towering mountainside shaped like a man’s profile. This famous destination wasn’t always known as Grandfather Mountain. Read more
Jun 1, 2020
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Made in the Shade
In spring, the rhododendrons that bank the steep hollow that slopes to Norton Creek will burst into billowy clouds. The eight treehouses built around the forest guarding the creek will look like they are floating in a bubble bath of flowers. Read more
Jun 1, 2020
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The Bounty of Blackberries
Some of my fondest childhood memories center on countless days spent plucking the fruits of the good Earth. Foremost among these was picking what is far and away the best known of the wild brambles, the luscious and pretty much ubiquitous blackberry. Read more
Jun 1, 2020
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How Can It be Wrong if It Grows Wild?
Sipping a pint of beer in the back of the Wicked Weed Funkatorium in the South Slope neighborhood of Asheville, North Carolina, Charles Humphrey scans the wide room, a vaulted ceiling hovering high above the quickly assembling audience. Read more
Jun 1, 2020
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The Bounty of Blackberries
Some of my fondest childhood memories center on countless days spent plucking the fruits of the good Earth. Foremost among these was picking what is far and away the best known of the wild brambles, the luscious and pretty much ubiquitous blackberry. Read more
Jun 1, 2020
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How Can It be Wrong if It Grows Wild?
Sipping a pint of beer in the back of the Wicked Weed Funkatorium in the South Slope neighborhood of Asheville, North Carolina, Charles Humphrey scans the wide room, a vaulted ceiling hovering high above the quickly assembling audience. Read more
Jun 1, 2020
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An Artist Remembered
Have you ever been stopped in your tracks at the sight of a splendid natural landscape? Perhaps captured by the glory, even divinity, of a place in the world with perfect symmetry and order? Perfect for you? Read more
Jun 1, 2020
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July on the Water
Independence Day dawned clear and warm, the blazing sun a fitting precursor to the fireworks to come that evening. It was a beautiful day, save for the heat, so when some friends invited my boyfriend and I for a canoe trip, yes was an easy answer. Read more
Jun 1, 2020
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Gravity Defied
A light mountain breeze wends its way through the leafy canopy, dispersing some of the summer heat. The air is fresh, and around you life bristles and buzzes blue above, green all around. A long deep breath feels good. Read more
Jun 1, 2020
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Understanding Underrated Flies
Although life takes a seemingly endless variety of forms, the land lubbers of Earth share some basic experiences that bind us all together. Read more
Jun 1, 2020
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Hornets’ Nest
My dog Bandit and I often walk down our rural road, passing a pasture where cows come to the fence to watch us. Recently I looked up at the winter-white sky and spied a large hornets’ nest hanging from a sycamore tree. Read more
Jun 1, 2020
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Fried Pies
I’ve always held you can tell mountain southerners from all other southerners by the kind of fried pie they prefer. Read more
Apr 1, 2020
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Early Flowers Get the Sun
Spring usually surprises us with an uncontained vigor and natural beauty that we tend to forget during the quiet of winter. This brilliance is not merely an illusion created by cabin fever, however. Read more
Apr 1, 2020
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