2020

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Visiting Tennessee While Staying Home

The threat of coronavirus has many people in our country staying home and avoiding travel, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy some new explorations.
These five Wytheville children were transported to Roanoke Hospital, where they breathed with the assistance of the hospital’s iron lungs.

Wytheville’s ‘Summer Without Children’

What was it that caused one little Virginia mountain town to suddenly find itself faced, in the summer of 1950, with 200 cases of polio amid a population of just 5,500?
Two of Molly Dugger Brennan's rescue dogs, Squirrel and Biscuit

The Good Mountain Mutt: New Pup – Now What?

The first installment of a new Blue Ridge Country blog, from an expert.
The view from Fullers Rocks onto the James River and, beyond on the horizon, Apple Orchard Mountain.

The Fine View from Fullers Rocks

Hike, March 1, 2020: Little Rocky Row Trail to Appalachian Trail to Fullers Rocks and back. 6.2 miles.
Farmer and author Evan Willams’ orchard grows heirloom apples.

Evan Williams: Grafting Trees and Drafting Fiction

For Henderson County apple-farmer-turned-novelist Evan Williams, a lifetime in the orchard yields a bounty of stories.

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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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