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Blue Ridge Country magazine editor at large (and former editor) Cara Ellen Modisett grew up in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and was introduced to the magazine by her uncle, an attorney and photographer, when she was in college.
After graduating from James Madison University in 1998, she took an internship at Blue Ridge Country and joined the staff a few months later. She is presently pursuing an MFA in creative nonfiction; besides her work at Blue Ridge Country she is a reporter for WVTF public radio, a performing classical pianist and on adjunct faculty at Community High School in Roanoke.
Online, you can reach Cara through email, cmodisett@leisurepublishing.com, and on Twitter, @caramodisett. Offline, she lives in Roanoke, VA with her husband and their two cats.
I am thankful today for salt and a potato.
Specifically, the salt and potato my sister and I traded a half-block from each of our houses, meeting halfway this morning before one of us (I’m not saying which one) had even had a shower, a while after my husband had woken up early to chop things and a while after her children had woken up early because they are one and three years old.
We've covered a lot of ground in the last few days, my husband and I. Three mornings ago we left Roanoke, Va., where the fall is just beginning to announce itself in spills of leaves on the roads in our neighborhood, the sharp shadows on the mountain...
Floyd, Va. is a musicians' town. Not in the same way Nashville is, or New York City, or Vienna, Austria, but in a quiet, neighborly sort of way, in my experience.
I’ve been away from this page a little while, and am returning to it with an odd image, I realize – not a picture of mountain ridges, but of other shades of blue, from across two states, at the edge of another deep and ancient landscape.
Contributing editor Elizabeth Hunter will be leading her annual monarch butterfly demonstration on September 26 at the Orchard at Altapass , Little Switzerland, N.C. The workshop will run from 1:00 to 2:30. Call 828-765-9531 for more information.
Out the windows: trees, farmland, small-town downtowns, dirt roads, overcast sky. A hollow, long-reaching whistle signals our coming and our passing. The movement of the car is rattling smooth, huge heavy wheels hold to the rails and every now and th...
In our November/December issue, I wrote in my column that no matter where we are here in the Blue Ridge, we are on battle ground, hallowed ground. We've become so disconnected in time from the Civil War that in our minds it becomes another historical...
The Fool in the Woods, aka Blue Ridge Country editor in chief Kurt Rheinheimer, is back with more great woodland information and secrets, this time reporting on how Virginia's Devil's Marbleyard was formed.
See Kurt's Hikes Blog.
