September 2022

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New Photo Books: The Smokies & The Parkway

Photo salutes shine on the micro and macro of two national parks.
Among the benefits of the 960-acre conservation in McDowell County, North Carolina, are protections of rare species and of headwater streams.

Foothills Conservancy Protects 960 New Acres

North Carolina lands are to be the site of a future trail through Burke and Caldwell counties.
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs, by Sally Mann. Little, Brown & Company, 2015. 482 pp.

Book Note – Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

by Sally Mann. Little, Brown & Company, 2015. 482 pp.
The Falls of Hills Creek is one of 29 stops on the new West Virginia Waterfalls Trail.

Exploring 29 Falls: The WVA Waterfalls Trail

West Virginia also adds a second driving route to its Mountain Rides program.
Buchanan is nestled along old U.S. 11 and flanked by the James River.

Buchanan: A Virginia River Gem and Gateway Community Past & Present

Resting at the southern end of the Shenandoah Valley and the northern end of the Roanoke Valley, Buchanan is the best of both worlds: a river town and a mountain town.

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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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