Amy C. Clark

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Gatlinburg: Darkness Erases Scars

The Cherokee people called the southern Appalachian mountains “shaconage” (sha-con-oh-hey) or “place of the blue smoke.”
Bertha Sybert, 1938. Neighbors and newspaper writers came to the Sybert home to watch the phenomenon of Bertha on the bed.

Reader Favorites: The Legend Of Bouncing Bertha

It was the winter of '38 in the Virginia mountains. Just what was it that affected Bertha Sybert?

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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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