Mountain Turnaround/Success Story
Saving of Stumphouse Tunnel and Isaqueena Falls: Platinum
North Carolina Acquiring of Chimney Rock Park: Platinum

Favorite Blue Ridge Country story
"Mystery of History" – The Melungeons, by Kurt Rheinheimer, 2003-2007, “Anything about the Melungeons,” as one reader put it. Editor in Chief Kurt Rheinheimer wrote an lengthy feature on their history in our September/October 2006 issue: : Platinum