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Hiking companions Gail Rheinheimer and Cookie pause on the trail.

Dog Walks Into a Pups’ Issue (How a Pinot Becomes a Cookie)

Reluctance to own a dog is not necessarily commensurate with the fruits of actual ownership.
The Ranger’s Outpost Cabin: It’s a three-mile hike in to escape civilization, including electricity and running water.

Get Remote at New West Virginia Cabin

A new cabin recently opened on a mountain in southeastern West Virginia’s Camp Creek State Park and Forest provides the perfect place to get away from it all.
STAY has recently hired Mekyah Davis (far right in second row from back, in turquoise shirt) as a co-coordinator working to include Black people in the Appalachian narrative.

STAY Project Turns 12 . . . and It’s Here to Stay

STAY has recently hired Mekyah Davis as a co-coordinator working to include Black people in the Appalachian narrative.
Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains. By Cassie Chambers. Ballantine Books, 279 pp.

Book Review – Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

Despite inevitable comparisons to J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy,” Cassie Chambers’ “Hill Women” is a memoir with a different intention.
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The Barter Theatre Goes Holiday Festive . . . at the Drive In!

Rita Hayworth starred in the first movie shown at the Moonlite Drive-In Theatre along U.S. 11 between Abingdon and Bristol, Virginia. It was 1949’s “Down to Earth.”
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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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