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Randy Johnson
Should We Save the Vanishing Balds? The Forest Service Says "Yes"
The Southern Appalachian regions of North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia contain about 2,500 acres of "balds"-high, open meadows along the ridges of mountain peaks. How they got there and how to keep them there have become hot topics. Read more
Jun 18, 2018
Chuck Summers
Kentucky: Unbridled Spirit and Beauty
Chuck Summers, a photographer and church minister, has a book of images from across the state of Kentucky. Read more
Aug 30, 2007
The Round Barns of Madison County
Circular barns, popular a century ago for their efficiencies of materials, labor and use, have largely left the landscape. One, in the foothills of Virginia, has recently been re-upped for the next 100 years. Read more
Dec 18, 2011
Photographs by Carrie Fowler.
A New Sound
His real love lies with the fiddle: "I've just stayed with it all my life." All his life isn't too long – six years out of a dozen – but long enough that he's played in Nashville, at the Carter Family Fold, at Virginia's FloydFest, on the BCMA Pickin Read more
Aug 13, 2009
Don Haines
Tragic Ends: Frankie and Charlie Silver
The story of the tragic 1831 deaths of a teen couple in the North Carolina mountains. Read more
Jul 1, 2001
If It's WNC Weather, It's Ray
Dr. Ray Russell, computer science professor, minister and marathoner, is also THE weatherman in the mountains, with a quarter million visitors a month to Raysweather.com. Read more
Dec 12, 2010
Photo by Cara Ellen Modisett.
Gettysburg, Day 2: Lincoln in the Theater?
It was a little odd seeing Abraham Lincoln walk into the theater last night. Read more
Jul 16, 2009
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