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From the Editor: Remembering Elizabeth Hunter

This magazine has lost a dear and treasured friend. The world has lost much more than that.
RIGHT: A yellow morel grows on a Botetourt County, Virginia mountainside. TOP LEFT: Roanoke, Virginia’s Jeff Huffman finds a yellow morel in a poplar glade. Note the three poplars growing together behind the mushroom. BOTTOM LEFT: Use a knife to remove an edible mushroom from its base. Doing so often enables the fungi to reproduce from the same spot.

Blue Ridge Fungi Fancier: An Expert Guides a Learner

Jeff Huffman has taken the time to learn what needs to be known about the wondrous world of mushrooms in the forest.
Glade Creek Grist Mill, at Babcock State Park, West Virginia, owes some of its striking beauty to the fact that it was assembled from parts of older mills.

On the Trail of Grist Mills

We visit a collection of the turning wheels and stones that built human history in the mountains.
Beaten biscuits are a 200-year tradition.

Notes from the Land of Spoonbread and Soup Beans

We follow a trail of our favorite tastes from eastern Kentucky.
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Singing in the Garden: Of Cat Tales and Cattails

“Nature is bent on new beginning...” — Rosy Cole
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