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Cara Ellen Modisett
Autumn Drives in June
It's June, and I've been working on a story for our September/October issue... on fall drives.
Jun 19, 2011
The Train to Maryland
No more steam locomotives, except scenic excursion trains, but Amtrak is still a wonderful way to travel and I go by train any chance I get.
Aug 12, 2012
Train Stories, Part I
Out the windows: trees, farmland, small-town downtowns, dirt roads, overcast sky. A hollow, long-reaching whistle signals our coming and our passing.
Jul 21, 2010
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.
May 1, 2011
Pat and Chuck Blackley
Tragedy in the Making? Sudden Oak Death Looms
Here in the 100th Anniversary year of the first detection of the chestnut blight, the tree that has largely replaced it in the forests of the southern Appalachians is at risk for a similar fate.
Jan 1, 2009
Reader Favorites: Tom Dooley, Bound to Die
A love triangle, a murder, a young man on the gallows… it’s the stuff ballads are made of. Sharyn McCrumb takes a trip to N.C. to unravel the truth about Tom Dooley – or rather, Tom Dula – hanged in 1868 for a crime that still raises questions.
Jan 1, 2009
Livin’ & Lovin’ Log Homes
Nick Berndt, owner of Appalachian Custom Homes in Sylva, N.C., wheels his Tundra up a winding incline to the site of a 3,700-square-foot hybrid timber frame home he’s building.
Did Edith Maxwell Murder Her Father in 1935?
In 1935, Edith Maxwell, a 21-year-old schoolteacher, became an overnight celebrity – for patricide she may or may not have committed. Seventy years later, residents still resent the backwoods image the newspapers printed of rural Wise County, Va..
Mar 1, 2006
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