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September 2012

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Tony Rice, The Eccentric Flat-Picker

Rice’s flatpick guitar work lived up to his legend for talent – and for eccentricity, at least musically.
The chicken dance is one of Mountain Lake's Oktoberfest traditions.

Bier and Sauerkraut! Mountain Lake’s Oktoberfest

For 22 years, they have poured their hearts into the music and the mountain. And they have been toasted by a ton of beer. Mountain Lake Resort Hotel's lively Oktoberfest stars the Sauerkraut Band, a German oompah act boasting about 20 members.
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Marie Spaeder Haas

Now a resident of Ocoee, Tenn., a valley community about 70 miles west of Shooting Creek, Haas is still surrounded by mountains.
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New River Float: Ivanhoe to Foster Falls

The National Committee for the New River organized a float this summer from Boone, N.C. to Gauley Bridge, W.Va., where the New joins the Gauley to form the Kanawha. Tim Thornton paddled along and dropped a line whenever he found a wireless connection
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Remembering Judy Bonds, a Voice Against Mountaintop Removal

Cancer took Judy Bonds, the legendary West Virginia fighter against the destruction of Appalachia's mountains, early this year at 58. Illness had forced her to stop work at Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW) in Whitesville, W.Va.
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Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

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