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Dawnfire Photography
Photo Essay: The Beauty of the Cold Season
When the mountains turn cold and snowy, our contributing photographers pull on the boots and head out. Read more
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Mast General Store
Stocking Up On Tradition: Inside Mast General Store
Now in its second century, employee-owned Mast General Store continues to provide patrons with an old-timey shopping experience. Read more
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Curios: The Bridge the Soviets Nearly Built On the West Virginia-Kentucky Border
In the 1970s, the tiny West Virginia community of Vulcan became so desperate for a crossing into Kentucky that they reached out to Russia. Read more
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Curios: The Walton War - Two College Presidents Sort It Out
In the early 1800s, Georgia and North Carolina went briefly into battle over a strip of land that is now part of North Carolina’s Transylvania County. Read more
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Chris Greer
Great Scenic Byways in Seven States
Combine mountain scenic beauty, a bounty of cultural and historical stops with great places to eat and to spend the night and you could plan a year’s worth of great travel. Here we go! Read more
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Robert Tino
Portraits of Nature
Landscape artist Robert Tino captures the character of the Great Smoky Mountains in oil paintings. Read more
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Courtesy Warren County Historical Society
Curios: If Those Hills Could Talk... Secrets of 3,200 Acres in Virginia
Since 1909, a beautiful tract of land near Front Royal has carefully guarded a varying set of not-so-public identities. Read more
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Curios: Mountain Mints of the 1800s - First U.S. $1 Gold Coin Was Carolina-Made
The pre-California gold rushes in North Carolina and Georgia overwhelmed the Philadelphia mint to the point that gold coins came to be struck here in the Southern Appalachians. Read more
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Mike Koenig
Curios: Twin Poplars - 1737 Tribal Settlement?
Legend has it that after a weeklong battle, the Catawba and Cherokee tribes settled a territorial dispute and joined two trees to commemorate the peace. Read more
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