September 2024

At Wade’s, chicken is fried slowly and macaroni and cheese is classed as a vegetable.

Dining at Wade’s: Field Peas, Fried Okra and Family

This Upstate South Carolina institution, founded in 1947, represents the meat-and-three tradition at its best.
Natali Rodgers: “I always had a love of water. I would pretend as a kid that I was doing underwater explorations like Jacques Cousteau.”

Diving In

Tennessee Aquarium’s Natali Rodgers inspires the next wave of conservationists to be part of needed change.
Ben Montgomery. Chicago Review Press. 2015. 266 pp.

Book Note: Grandma Gatewood’s Walk

by Ben Montgomery. Chicago Review Press. 2015. 266 pp.
In addition to many country hits, Dave Loggins wrote the Masters golf theme music, “Augusta.”

Bristol’s Award-Winning Dave Loggins Dies

Dave Loggins gave up a drafting career to write songs on a guitar that he had bought at a music shop on State Street in downtown Bristol along the Virginia-Tennessee border.
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September/October Skywatch: East of the Milky Way Leaps The Dolphin

Following the Summer Triangle in its nightly westward turn, just off the eastern shore of the Milky Way lies a curious group of stars, the constellation Delphinus the dolphin.

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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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