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2020

Young John-John salutes his father at Morgantown’s JFK Memorial.

Rewarding River Walks: West Virginia

Our walks columnist and his wife have done the homework for your enjoyment of these fulfilling wanders along the riverside.
The refurbished Blackburn Inn is scheduled to open a wellness center in 2020.

Architecture Tied To Jefferson Now A Boutique Hotel

The Blackburn Inn’s history reaches back to 1825.
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Mountain Curios 2020

Wait, a face carved in stone at the New River Gorge? Tweetsie Railroad had three lives? And West Virginia’s Cheat Mountain four? Get details about these riddles and more in our annual collection of the strange but true.
Sharp Drop: The falloff from the mountains of South Carolina’s Caesars Head (foreground) and Table Rock (on the horizon)state parks onto the Piedmont is starkly illustrative of the unique character of the Blue Ridge Escarpment.

The Heavy-duty Science Curio: New Eye For The Blue Ridge Escarpment

We got a note awhile back about a new scientific study looking at “the electrical conductivity of Earth’s crust and mantle below the mountain chain.” We wanted to understand it better, so we contacted the study’s lead author. Here's what he shared.
Founding Troop #217 was Lora Callahan's first big project.

For the Love of Night Skies

Former Girl Scout Lora Callahan spent 120 hours leading an effort to make James River State Park Virginia’s second International Dark Sky Park. It became such last spring.
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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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