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Conservation at Camp Dickenson
The National Committee for the New River is floating from Boone, N.C. to Gauley Bridge, W.Va., where the New joins the Gauley to form the Kanawha. Tim Thornton is paddling along and dropping a line whenever he can find a wireless connection. Read more
Aug 6, 2010
Holy Smoke
It’s hot and miserable in the summer and freezing in the winter. It’s greasy and dirty all the time, and you’ve got ashes and soot all over you.” Such is the life of the barbecue pitmaster, in the words of Keith Allen, owner of Allen & Son Restaurant Read more
Mar 1, 2009
Figuring Out the Forever Forest
What if every county in the Blue Ridge region were home to at least one 500-year forest? The foundation carrying that name has already helped several property owners toward taking part in that effort. The result could be magnificent. Read more
Jun 18, 2018
Tiny Lake, Big Save
A one-acre lake that had been tended to for more than a decade by a group of Virginia high school students was about to lose its caretakers when their school fell victim to consolidation. Read more
Jan 1, 2012
40 Reasons We Love the Blue Ridge Region
40 Reasons We Love the Blue Ridge Region Read more
Jul 1, 2012
Music, Mosquitoes and Memories
It’s been a year since I last heard that fall sound, the sound of my youth, floating on the cooling air in our neighborhood of an afternoon, before the leaves have started changing but after the sky has started taking on its crisp, colder blue. Read more
Aug 20, 2011
The New Southern Garden Cookbook
My wife and I love shopping for locally grown fruits and vegetables. But when it comes to cooking with them, I admit, I tend to bite off more than I can chew. Thankfully, help has arrived. Read more
May 1, 2011
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Asheville Days
By the time “The Great Gatsby” author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his troubled wife Zelda reached Asheville in 1935, they were already in a period of serious decline. Read more
May 1, 1989
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