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June 2018

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Smith Mountain Lake Wine Festival is “On the Lake” Again This Year!

Don't miss the Smith Mountain Lake Wine Festival 2018!
May 1: The horseshoe crab, given its origin 450 years ago, is consider a living fossil. The foot is not quite that old.

From Coast to Cove

A coastline, Carvins Cove and a few more spots make Kurt's summer hikes pleasant ones.
From left: Sara, Maybelle and A.P. Carter.

The Carter Family Lives On…

Janette Carter Extends A 60-Year Tradition That Began With The Birth Of Country Music
This deciduous forest is in the Brooks-Kenny Clinch Mountain Preserve.

Figuring Out the Forever Forest

What if every county in the Blue Ridge region were home to at least one 500-year forest? The foundation carrying that name has already helped several property owners toward taking part in that effort. The result could be magnificent.
Restoration, as in all Rugby building, was painstaking and precise; lodging is available on the second floor.

Historic Rugby: Utopia Resurrected

Tennessee 52 negotiates the humps and dips of the Cumberland Plateau amid rural scenes-horses loosed in pastures, homes with manicured lawns in front and corn fields out back, ragged groves of plantation pines.
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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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