January 2021

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Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance Creates Data, Maps and More for Forests in the Virginias

This fall, the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance (ABRA) launched its Conservation Hub, an online treasure trove of GIS data, maps and links, to equip environmental advocates with scientific information.
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Book Notes: “Gap Creek”

By Robert Morgan. 326 pp. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1999
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Barn Quilts: A Story in Wood and Paint

A rural Virginia county gains an artistic awareness of itself.
Exotic shells and other sea-based items and artifacts fill the Stimpson Seashell Museum.

World-wide Shells Find a Home in East Tennessee

A shell collector has agreed to share part of his collections with the public.
The Rugby School is now a museum.

Rugby, Tennessee Lives on and Lives up to its Goals

Planned as a utopian settlement—a place where upper-class English second-born sons could live hard-working, honest lives—tiny Rugby is a lesson in perseverance.

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Behind Blue Ridge Country

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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