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The Sandburg home is reflected in Front Lake.

Walking Connemara: Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

The moderate, three-mile walk around the North Carolina home of Carl and Lilllian Sandburg includes an abundance of healthy hemlock trees.
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Family Ties: Giving What’s Due at the Graveyard

They met at dawn, and my relative was shot and killed. Not much of a reputation as a duelist if you lost your only duel. Good story, though.
Shenandoah National Park’s Skyland Lodge offers a blend of 1930s architecture, great views into Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, along with fine dining and plenty of hiking just out the front door.

From The Editor – National Parks: Let’s Celebrate

Smokies, Shenandoah, Blue Ridge Parkway... as our travel comfort returns and our national treasures begin to benefit from funding from the Great American Outdoors Act, let’s go play!
Bill Stiver has been luckier than many long-time National Park Service career employees in that he hasn’t had to hop from park to park to progress up the ladder.

Bear Man: Big Mammals in the Smokies

Bill Stiver credits “blind luck” for longtime career looking after large wildlife.
Flat Top Manor maintained its stately appearance in this 1953 photo, when it had become Blue Ridge Parkway property.

Flat Top Manor: The Estate that Moses & Bertha Built

The couple’s blend of morality, planning and civic responsibility lives on in a property that Bertha Cone did all she could to keep from becoming part of the Blue Ridge Parkway, much less the signature attraction that is undergoing major renovations.
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