2020

Fewer hooks and slices? Fling Golf can make for more accurate drives, chips and putts.

Fling Golf? Yes, It’s Time To Hurl On The Course

A new kind of golf is hitting the fairways across the Blue Ridge region.
“All About the Appalachian Trail,” by Leonard M. Adkins. Blue River Press, $5.99.

“Good Walk” Columnist Publishes Appalachian Trail Books for Kids

Leonard Adkins, long-time columnist for this magazine and author of more than 20 books on hiking, the outdoors and nature, has published “All About the Appalachian Trail,” from Blue River Press.
Lee Smith. The Last Girls. (Ballantine Books, 2002) 406 pp.

A Classic Book Review: The Last Girls

For Women of a Certain Age, Lee Smith’s “The Last Girls” is a trip you want to take now: a novel about four women reliving a raft journey down the Mississippi River taken when it was acceptable to call college-aged women girls.
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Maple Roots: A Business Seeded Deeply in Family

Western North Carolina brothers Matt and Tim Nichols say their natural nerdiness made moving from collecting action figures to some 1,200 cultivars of maple trees a natural.
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The Good Mountain Mutt – Rover and Retirees

What to do with all that free time now that you’re officially retired and living the life? Get a dog. Here’s why.

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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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