October 2022

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Eliot Berz: Eye on the Sky, Foot in the Water

Berz keeps boyhood outside play alive by studying migratory birds while protecting a unique Tennessee river system.
Behind the scenes with Sammy Shelor.

Blue Ridge PBS Launches New Music Show

Blue Ridge PBS launches a new music show featuring international artists in “Life of a Musician” to be hosted by Danville artist Brandon Lee Adams.
Black trumpets often grow in small colonies.

October’s Wild Edible: Black Trumpets

In the Blue Ridge Mountains, chanterelle family members such as the smooth and cinnabar light up the forest floor with their yellow and red hues, respectively. But their close relative the black trumpet is anything but flashy.
The “side-splitting nature” of Bil Lepp causes listener reactions like on these faces as they they laugh at one of his ridiculous and hilarious stories.

Jonesboro Storytelling Turns 50

The Tennessee mountain town has become an international center for people and cultures telling what needs to be told.

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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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