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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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Myriam Santos
It’s Only Fear That Makes You Run
From humble and hardscrabble beginnings as a performer in dive bars and backrooms throughout the Midwest in the late 1970s and early 1980s to international acclaim just a decade later, Etheridge has remained a beacon of creativity and purpose. Read more
Apr 1, 2020
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Superlative Smokies Places (Minus the Masses)
Of the nation’s 61 full-fledged national parks, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is easily the most visited, attracting a record 12.5 million visitors in 2019. It could be argued that the Smokies park has become too popular for its own good. Read more
Apr 1, 2020
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Time traveling in Cataloochee
The drive to Cataloochee Valley is a harrowing one, especially if the weather’s bad or your car is, like mine, nearly 20 years old and in constant danger of breaking down. Read more
Apr 1, 2020
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A Conversation With the Chief of Trail Volunteers
For the past three years, Adam Monroe has been the guy in charge of wrangling the 250 volunteers who help with trails and facilities maintenance in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park each year. Read more
Apr 1, 2020
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Breathing Life Into Wood
For one weekend in May, Burnsville, North Carolina, will play host to the second year of a new festival celebrating a historic Appalachian tradition: handmade stringed instruments. Read more
Apr 1, 2020
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Invaders Among Us
They thrive in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and they flourish in the Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina. Read more
Apr 1, 2020
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Homesteaders, Hicks, and Hippies
On the tiny road below my son’s home in Asheville lives a family who raises chickens and goats, plants a sizable garden in the spring, and owns an older house on which they do many of the repairs. Read more
Apr 1, 2020
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Painting in a ‘Hermited Way’
Francesco Lombardo had been trying to get his paintings noticed when, in early 2019, he got three emails on the same day from galleries that wanted to represent him. Two were from so-called “vanity” outfits that charge artists to show their work. Read more
Apr 1, 2020
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Southern Bookstores
There is something hauntingly seductive about old Southern second-hand bookstores that draws me like honeybees to nectar. I descend a step that is not quite where I expect it to be, to enter what some would see as just an old house filled with books. Read more
Apr 1, 2020
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