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August 15, 2012

The view is of the New River from the state park; the bridge is a railroad bridge along the CSX line through the gorge.

Blue Ridge Fall Getaways: Photographers Favorites

Get Away This Fall: Photographers share their favorite autumn drives.
Rural quiet. The parkway runs past Glendale Springs, N.C. where the Glendale Springs Inn housed parkway engineers in the 1930s.

RVing the Blue Ridge Parkway

As a long-time tent camper and fan of Blue Ridge Parkway road trips, the idea of trying an RV for the first time on one of America's prettiest roads had some definite appeals.
Fred First compares the mountains’ pull upon us to those of nutrients, of migration, of music.

All Trails Lead…

Fred First lives in Floyd County, Virginia. He is a blogger, photographer, columnist, radio essayist and author of "Slow Road Home" and “What We Hold in Our Hands.”
Or so Jane Hicks’ home once seemed to be. The award-winning poet and quilter lives in Blountville, Tenn., from where she coined the term “cosmic possum.”

Road to Anywhere Else

Or so Jane Hicks’ home once seemed to be. The award-winning poet and quilter lives in Blountville, Tenn., from where she coined the term “cosmic possum.”
Cara Ellen Modisett

Moon, Music and Magic

Once a month or so, I drive southwest out of Roanoke to rehearse with a fiddle player friend of mine...
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