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July 2018

Under Canvas offers luxury tents with private bathrooms, decks, king-size beds and wood stoves.

Glamping in the Smokies

When Sarah Dusek and her husband Jacob were looking for a spot to launch another Under Canvas retreat after opening “glamping” sites in four western national parks, they chose the Smokies.
Chris Kappler (inset) does a loop-de-loop over West Virginia’s New River Gorge for a Wild Blue Adventure customer in his restored 1943 Boeing Stearman. With each aerial tour, pilot Chris Kappler is transformed into a World War II flying ace.

Bird Man

Chris Kappler turns flying obsession into soaring sideline business. A chance encounter with a discerning pilot changed a 15-year-old’s life forever.
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Grand Prize Photo: “Diamond on the Blue Ridge Parkway”

The solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, dubbed “The Great American Eclipse” was a total eclipse visible within a band that spanned the entire contiguous United States, passing from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts.
Nancy Bruns and her brother, Lewis Payne, have been harvesting salt since 2014.

Mountain Traditions: Back to Business, Decades Later

A happy accident led Nancy Bruns to revitalize her family’s 200-year-old West Virginia salt-making business.
Main Street Erwin comes alive for the Great Outdoors Festival, even in the rain.

A Town Comes to Peace: The Elephant in the Train Yard

In September 1916, the eastern Tennessee town of Erwin earned a notoriety that would shadow it for a century, when a five-ton elephant was lynched in the railyard, suspended from a railroad derrick before a crowd hungry for her blood.
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