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2018

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.
Left and inset: Ezra Staengl Bronze Award at the 2018 American Birding Association Young Birder of the Year Competition included an honorable mention for his photography. Right: Ezra got photographically up close and personal with these chestnut-sided warblers.

Ezra Staengl Has His Eye on Nature

The young Virginia naturalist is on a quest to protect nature and inspire others to do the same.
Sky Meadows

The Good Walk: Sky Meadows State Park

Being less than an hour’s drive away, Sky Meadows State Park became a favorite destination when Laurie and I were employed by George Mason University’s Outdoor Education Center.
This special image has mama bear cradling all three of her precious cubs. She will continue to have her paws full, raising, feeding, protecting and teaching them for 18 months until they have a “family breakup.”

Up Close & Personal With Mama & Her Cubs

These charmingly intimate views of a female black bear and her cubs—which are born at a mere eight ounces—show the deep personal connection between mama and her babies.
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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

April 12, 2018

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