Book Reviews

CURRENT Book Reviews

Landings: A Crooked Farm Year by Arwen Donahue. Hub City Press, 2022. 257 pp.

Book Note – Landings: A Crooked Farm Year

by Arwen Donahue. Hub City Press, 2022. 257 pp.
Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver. HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. 444 pp.

Book Note – Prodigal Summer

by Barbara Kingsolver. HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. 444 pp.
A Land More Kind Than Home, by Wiley Cash. HarperCollins Publishers, 2012. 309 pp.

Book Note – A Land More Kind Than Home

by Wiley Cash. HarperCollins Publishers, 2012. 309 pp.
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New Photo Books: The Smokies & The Parkway

Photo salutes shine on the micro and macro of two national parks.
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs, by Sally Mann. Little, Brown & Company, 2015. 482 pp.

Book Note – Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

by Sally Mann. Little, Brown & Company, 2015. 482 pp.

Departments

At Coopers Rock State Forest, new Stargazer cabins invite guests to look up through skylights and telescopes.
Country Roads

Even Closer to Almost Heaven

New Stargazer cabins at Coopers Rock State Forest offer a skyward escape in the mountains of West Virginia.

©Duncan Seaman
Country Roads

A Mountain Tradition Turns 90 

Visitors flock to Galax, Virginia, each summer for the Old Fiddlers’ Convention, a days-long celebration of Appalachian music.

Synchronous Fireflies
Creature Feature

The Light Fantastic

Fireflies are struggling with the effects of artificial light.

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