“I wouldn’t trade my time photographing in Cades Cove for anything,” photographer Bill Lea writes in the introduction to his book “Cades Cove: Window to a Secret World,” which explores the quiet beauty of this part of Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains.
Years ago, I was the host of West Virginia Public Radio’s “Down Home Music Show.” The program focused on the music of the Appalachians and it was then that I learned about Bristol, the city that not only straddles the Tennessee/Virginia border, but i...
Granted, the “riding” on the side of Lookout Mountain isn’t typical, especially in this neck of the woods. A winding path that shows an “active” view of the landscape, and a favorite design among mid-18th-century English nobility, it’s not something ...
Stretching from Vonore, Tenn. to Murphy, N.C., the history-laden passage through Unicoi Gap in the Southern Appalachians may have been used as early as the 16th century, according to historian/author Lowell Kirk. Kirk thinks Indian guides who led Sp...
The warm sun plays against the morning chill; that sort of sweet-and-sour effect that occurs only on a perfect spring morning. Take your time enjoying the beautiful days and the scattered groups of spring flowers along the trails...
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.
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