March 2023

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Edna Lewis Menu Trail: Enjoy Legacy Dining

The ‘Grand Dame of Southern Cooking’ is also to be honored with a historical highway marker in Virginia.
The Cloudland was a 166-room resort.

The Cloudland Hotel: 19th Century Luxury at 6,400 Feet

In 1885 on the Tennessee/North Carolina border atop Roan Mountain, there opened a luxury resort that drew the likes of Henry Ford.
Young foxes emerge from their den under the watchful eye of their mother in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. From the photographer: “As I sat in my photo-blind, the den glowed as the sun was setting to create a dramatic backlight effect.”

Photo Essay: Spring Flora & Fauna

Come springtime, the forest explodes with new life. Our contributing photographers have the beautiful, charming and sometimes surprising pictorial evidence.

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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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