2025

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Singing in the Garden: Beauty and Terror

"Let Everything happen to you, beauty and terror, just keep going, no feeling is final." ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Flappers sipped cocktails on the patio.

Curios: Celebrating, ’20s Style

For an Asheville native with both six-degree and fandom ties to Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, a night of stepping into the flair and feel of 100 years ago provided a fanciful taste of their life and times.
The sugar camp houses the processes that advance sap water to maple syrup.

Maple Syrup Magic

This Swiss-German family has been making the golden syrup in West Virginia for three generations.
Michael Smith: “It’s like being an elementary school teacher. I know a little bit about a lot of things in the park, but I don’t dive deep into any of those.”

Sharing the Smokies

Interpretive park ranger Michael Smith loves chatting up the mountains he calls home.
Elizabeth Hunter’s love for and dedication to the land was a hallmark of her life.

Intimacy with the Land: A Small Bouquet to Helene Victims

May we all come to reach Elizabeth Hunter's level of appreciation of where we live, whether climbing up from the rubble or lucky enough to have escaped that terrible challenge.

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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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