December 23, 2014

A group of unidentified Zittles clusters around the family home in this undated photo.

Mountain Curios: The Wizard of South Mountain

Many believed in the magic of Wizard Zittle to cure their ills and change their fortune. His own fortune changed after he broke the magicians’ code.
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Mountain Curios: The Little Train that Could is Now a Rail Trail

The Virginia Blue Ridge Railway survived war, the depression, changing extraction goals and much more. Now it has a new life.
No photos exist of Abraham Enloe, the possible father of Abraham Lincoln, but one of his 16 children keenly resembles the president.

Mountain Curios: Was Abe Lincoln a North Carolinian?

Success does have many fathers, but as many as 17 candidates for the presidential paternity?

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Behind Blue Ridge Country

Even More Sweet Virginia Breezes

Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

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