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Partner content: Unveiling Viriginia's Hidden Gem
The Bristol Hotel embodies its hometown’s industrial roots, musical soul and adventurous Appalachian spirit. The 65-room boutique hotel located in the city’s former downtown Executive Plaza has a rooftop bar with sweeping mountain views... Read more
May 3, 2024
Museum of Appalachia Honors Late Author Alex Haley
The Museum of Appalachia celebrated the late author Alex Haley at its Heroes of Southern Appalachia Award ceremony on March 1. Read more
Mar 25, 2024
History, Mystery & Scenery
The Southern Appalachian Mountains gently taper to an end here in the northernmost edge of Georgia. Milder temperatures, scenic backroads and abundant attractions make this region one of my favorites for weekend getaways. Read more
Mar 25, 2024
National Cornbread Festival Celebrates a Tennessee Town
The allure of cornbread crackling in a cast-iron skillet is reality at the National Cornbread Festival in South Pittsburg, Tennessee, during the last full weekend of April. Read more
Mar 25, 2024
Always Christmas
It’s not every day you meet someone who believes they have glitter running through their veins. Then again, it’s not every day you meet someone who has spent their entire life wrapped up in their family’s year-round Christmas shop. Read more
Nov 25, 2023
Sponsored: Now Is the Time to Become a Biltmore 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
Nov 1, 2023
Dirt Highways
If you open your windows on the Old Cataloochee Turnpike in the summertime you will smell innumerable wildflowers and hear, just beyond the rumble of the gravel under your tires, the sound of Cataloochee Creek at the bottom of a narrow valley. Read more
Oct 1, 2023