January 2020

Allan Benton’s prosciutto tops a salad of roasted beets and lightly fried cakes of goat cheese at Rain.

Flavors: Rain Serves a Flood of Flavor

The food at this Abingdon, Virginia, eatery is as beautiful as the art on the walls of the water-themed dining room.
The mysterious carving is on National Park Service land near the New River Gorge.

‘Mona Lisa of the Mountains?’ The Stone Face of the New River Gorge

The enigmatic face was likely carved into soapstone in the 1950s by a coal miner.

Departments

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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