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It’s one of those typical days in Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. My husband and are stuck behind a line of slow-moving cars taking the popular and almost always overcrowded Cades Cove loop tour. But our destination is a little different on this day, and as soon as we’re able to skirt the Cades Cove Visitor Center halfway around the loop, we take off for a day’s diversion down some of the less traveled roads of the park and its southwestern border.
Some people came to find the murder site. Others wanted to glimpse remnants of the old still, hidden in the woods where mountain men made moonshine. I had never attrelended an organized hike with the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club before, but I came ...
469 miles winding along the ridgelines of two states, the Blue Ridge Parkway spans not only mountain ranges and county lines, but also spans decades in time, years that saw technological advances and artistic movements, wars in foreign countries and ...
It began on the first two days of August, 1927, with the recording of six songs on the second floor of a warehouse on Bristol’s State Street. Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter, Sara Doughtery Carter and Maybelle Kilgore Addington Carter drove in from Mac...
There are champions and there are championships. In Avery County, N.C., they’re both about square dancing and it’s just about the best you’ve ever seen anywhere.
Hundreds of people turned out for public hearings held by the Corps of Engineers in October in Appalachia as the agency considers a major change in how it permits mountaintop removal coal mining. Currently, the Corps issues a one-size-fits-all type o...
There are mysteries to discover in Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau: icyballs, waterfalls, cowardly pine trees, Mark Twain’s place of conception and a historical independent streak.
