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This postal arrow, one of the few still preserved in the Southern Appalachians, is in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, and directed airplanes on the Atlanta-New York Airway.

Curios: Strange Arrows Upon the Land – 70 Feet of Bleached Concrete

The determination of what they are involves a combination of modern-day satellite technology and the delivery of snail mail.
The Major Graham Mansion, in Wythe County, Virginia, had its first glory days in the 1840s, soon after its construction; it took a strange brand of fandom for a rock band to bring about its brief and musical renaissance in the 2000s.

Curios: Spirits, Survivors and Songs – Where a Haunted Mansion and Rock ’n’ Roll Collide

The links, echoes and mysteries tying an old Virginia mountain mansion to a seminal Southern rock band are too rich to ignore.
The white post of White Post, Virginia, has been standing, in various rebuilt and repaired iterations, since 1750.

Curios: White Post in the Middle of the Road – George Washington Put it There First

The tiny Virginia village of White Post has a historic claim to fame, that people keep knocking over.
A tree ear mushroom looks remarkably like a human ear.

January’s Wild Edible: The Tree’s Ear Mushroom

Auricularia auricular, also known as the wood ear or jelly ear, is a member of the jelly and rubbery fungi family and is commonly found throughout the Blue Ridge Mountain range.
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Book Note: John Ehle, The Winter People

This is a novel for a winter’s night—or two or three.
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