Favorite Articles
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
Guardians of the Blooms
Helen and Julia Smith spent a quarter century documenting the wildflowers along the Blue Ridge Parkway on slides and in notebooks, eventually influencing the Parkway to change its mowing practices to preserve the blooms. Read more
Jun 18, 2018
Reader Favorites: Bramwell, WV - Village of Millionaires
Turn-of-the-century Bramwell, West Virginia, was a rich little town with more millionaires than any place of its size in America. Read more
May 20, 2009
From The Archive: The Day They Hanged an Elephant in East Tennessee
In 1916 World War I raged in Europe. Dadaism, ripe with comic derision and irrationality, took hold in artistic circles. Margaret Sanger opened the first birth-control clinic. It was a good year for scapegoats. It was a good year to hang an elephant. Read more
Jun 17, 2017
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