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Ghost Lights
Near Marion, North Carolina, there is a gravel track that makes an unlikely claim of being a state highway. If you are brave enough to bump along to the end of the narrow ridge, you will dead end at the beginning of a ghost story. Read more
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When Candy Rains Down
It is 1974, I am seven years old and parades are my favorite thing in the whole wide world. Read more
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David Cohen illustration
Hansel and Gretel
I saw the Hansel and Gretel dolls in the Sears Christmas 1963 catalog. The page showed the dolls standing side by side, and explained they were imported from Germany and designed by master craftsmen. Read more
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Photo Essay, December 2022
Our readers share their winter photos Read more
David Cohen illustration
Hansel and Gretel
I saw the Hansel and Gretel dolls in the Sears Christmas 1963 catalog. The page showed the dolls standing side by side, and explained they were imported from Germany and designed by master craftsmen. Read more
Dec 1, 2022
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
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
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
