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Endangered Treasures
Want to take a tour of the South from North Carolina to Alabama, meet some fascinating folks, pick up some history on the way, and learn a bit about wildlife, all the while learning about the region’s endangered plants? Read more
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Photo Essay, October 2022
Our readers share their images of winter weather. Read more
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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
River Cane
The English explorer John Lawson was the first to document the presence of river cane in the South. He was fascinated by the many practical uses of the plant demonstrated by the Indigenous peoples he encountered. Read more
Oct 1, 2022
David Cohen illustration
Best Friends
Growing up in the Clinchfield Cotton Mill village in Marion, North Carolina, my mother Madeline and her older sister Helen were very close. Music was an interest that bound them together through their early years. Read more
Oct 1, 2022
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
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
Courtesy Hunter Library, Western Carolina University
John Parris: Muse Of The Mountains
Through more than 7,000 columns and five books based on them, John Parris preserved knowledge of a rapidly vanishing way of life. In doing so, the storyteller of the mountains also became its sage. Read more
Aug 1, 2022
Our Elm Tree
In the summers of my Western North Carolina childhood, my older brother Steve and the neighborhood boys played baseball in our side field. At the upper end of the field stood a stately American elm tree. Read more
Aug 1, 2022
