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Visiting Georgia While Staying Home

Spring is normally a time when people begin venturing out to see beautiful blooms, enjoy spring breaks with their kids, and travel to new places. But this spring is unlike any other.
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Visiting Virginia While Staying Home

While travel isn’t advised right now due to the stay-at-home recommendations surrounding COVID-19, there are still ways to check out new places and virtually visit places of scenic beauty in the mountains of Virginia.
Kurt and Cookie along the lonesome Glenwood Horse Trail

Seeking Lonesome

Joy Boothe shows a few of her masks

Yancey County Volunteers Use Shelter-in-Place Time to Create Life Saving Masks

When Burnsville, North Carolina, resident Joy Boothe read about the growing shortage of N95 surgical masks, the former supervisor of the Blue Ridge Fitness and Rehab Center went to work.
Tomaro’s has been in the same location for 106 years.

For 106 Years, West Virginia’s Tomaro’s Has Kept on Baking

New outfits in soft pastels, the vinegary smell of egg dye, and chocolate bunnies commonly herald the coming of Easter. But in West Virginia’s Italian bakeries, anise-flavored bread is equally prized.
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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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