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Virginia’s Clinch River will host several park sites along its banks. The Sugar Hill section is open.

Greening the Mountains: Saved Spaces

Across the seven-state mountain region, parks are being expanded, lands preserved, rivers protected, mining areas reclaimed and much more.
Lindsey Gallaher

The Mountain Q&A – Lindsey Gallaher: President of The Museum of Appalachia

This granddaughter of Museum of Appalachia founder John Rice Irwin now leads the 54-year-old East Tennessee museum, keeping the stories alive and showing visitors how people of Southern Appalachia lived in the 1800s.
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Birds of the Blue Ridge: Black-and-white Warbler

This striped little bird is about the size of our chickadees and “creeps” up and down trees like our nuthatches.
This was the first school room at Pine Mountain Settlement School, 1914.

‘In the Spirit of Pine Mountain’

For many decades, that phrase has been the traditional closing for letters written by the directors of Pine Mountain Settlement School. What, I wondered, did it mean?
Davis's then-record 2011 hike began at the northern terminus of the trail at Mount Katahdin in Maine. She averaged 47 miles a day.

Trailblazer to Changemaker

Jennifer Pharr Davis is using the same strength that saw her hike the 2,197-mile Appalachian Trail in 46 days to make the world a better place, including relentless Hurricane Helene recovery help in her native Western North Carolina.
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Even More Sweet Virginia Breezes

Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

April 12, 2018

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