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On the trail for crafts
The Blue Ridge is a region rich in craft traditions and brimming with distinctive artists and galleries. The Blue Ridge Craft Trails cover 25 Western North Carolina counties, providing a digital map to 310 studios, galleries and arts organizations. Read more
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Discover MORE Biltmore as an Annual Passholder
George Vanderbilt first opened Biltmore, his magnificent private estate, to family and friends on Christmas Eve 1895. Today, his descendants continue welcoming guests with that same spirit of gracious hospitality. Read more
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On the trail for crafts
The Blue Ridge is a region rich in craft traditions and brimming with distinctive artists and galleries. The Blue Ridge Craft Trails cover 25 Western North Carolina counties, providing a digital map to 310 studios, galleries and arts organizations. Read more
Nov 12, 2022
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Photo Essay, October 2022
Our readers share their images of winter weather. Read more
Oct 1, 2022
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Versatile and delicious pumpkins
Pumpkins were spreading their far-reaching vines, broad leaves, and curly little pigtail tendrils across the high-country landscape long before the first European settler girdled trees or grubbed roots to clear a patch to plant. Read more
Oct 1, 2022
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Kerry Webb photo
American pastoral
With its recently released sophomore album, “American Pastoral,” rising Haywood County, North Carolina, Americana/indie-rock act The Brothers Gillespie has cultivated a vast, vibrant landscape of sonic and lyrical textures. Read more
Oct 1, 2022
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Toe River Arts Adventure
Art and adventure go hand in hand. Once you set your GPS to Yancey and Mitchell counties in North Carolina for the Toe River Art’s Annual Fall Studio Tour November 11-13, you’ll completely understand. Read more
Oct 1, 2022
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Holly Kays photo
Settling on the Smokies
As 2021’s arrival brought a welcome end to 2020, my hopes for international travel were high. But as the year wore on, it became clear that “normal” was still too distant to venture outside the U.S. Read more
Oct 1, 2022
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On the Trail in the Smokies
Although the heavily traveled Blue Ridge Parkway follows the brawny Balsams outside the park, the trailhead for Balsam Mountain Trail is one of the most remote in the Smokies. Read more
Oct 1, 2022
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A conversation with a Smokies descendent
When the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was created, thousands of people were forced to leave homes that fell inside the boundaries of the new park. But the six unmarried Walker sisters, who lived in Little Greenbriar Cove, refused to go. Read more
Oct 1, 2022
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Take Fido Along
Frolicking through the woods with our four-legged sidekicks is one of life’s simplest pleasures, but not all hiking trails welcome canine companions. The following are hiking trails that are conducive to every family member, even the furry ones. Read more
Oct 1, 2022
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Chattanooga’s Read House Celebrates Milestone Anniversary
The Read House was, in 1872, a modest yet humble lodging facility. Today, a proud legacy radiates throughout the historic 241-room hotel in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee, that has hosted parties, proms, and even a notorious mobster. Read more
Oct 1, 2022
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Did you ever?
As we age, increasingly there is a tendency to look back—usually with great longing—to the world we knew in younger years. Perhaps those times of reflection involve romanticizing reality, but there’s a sound argument that nostalgia carries pure joy. Read more
Oct 1, 2022
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A Heritage of Harvest
In Appalachia, those tied to the land can smell the harvest long before it arrives on a dusty breeze. Shorter daylight hours push us to hurry as the rest of the world is chattering about the pumpkin-spiced goodness fall brings. Read more
Oct 1, 2022
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