November 2017

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Was a North Georgia Boy First in Flight?

There was a patent for a "flying apparatus" a quarter century before the Wright brothers.
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10 Ways to Celebrate the Holidays

Up and down the mountain region, preparations for Christmas and other winter holidays are building. Here’s a potpourri of people, places and things to enjoy.
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Largest North Carolina Public Telescope Peers into Mountain Skies

A custom-built StarStructure Newtonian telescope has opened Mayland Community College’s Earth to Sky Park in Burnsville, North Carolina.
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‘Waltons’ Legacy Continues: Hamner House Opens for Tours

Earl Hamner Jr’s boyhood home, to the cheers of Walton-Hamner fans worldwide, is now open daily for tours.
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North Carolina Teen On the Rise

There’s a rising star on the old time traditional music scene.

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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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