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Jalapeno Peppers: Pick a Peck – or More

With heat or without, they’re tasty, versatile and pretty easy to grow.

Quiet Caddies

Big black eyes… long eyelashes… six feet tall… banana-shaped ears… weighs 375 pounds. Yes, that golf caddy isn't a young man – it's a llama.

Tiny Lake, Big Save

A one-acre lake that had been tended to for more than a decade by a group of Virginia high school students was about to lose its caretakers when their school fell victim to consolidation.

Mountain Monster: The Snallygaster

More than 100 years ago, this razor-beaked, lethal-clawed, high-screech creature roamed the western Maryland mountains. Or did it?

Frog Level Lives!

How would a town ever get that name? And why would people still be working hard to preserve its signature building?

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Heatless hybrid Felicity jalapenos set abundant long, tapering fruits.

Jalapeno Peppers: Pick a Peck – or More

With heat or without, they’re tasty, versatile and pretty easy to grow.
Golfers’ kids can help lead llamas around the course. Mark English, in cart, and Eric Henson, on foot.

Quiet Caddies

Big black eyes… long eyelashes… six feet tall… banana-shaped ears… weighs 375 pounds. Yes, that golf caddy isn't a young man – it's a llama.
The Estonoa wetland is covered with lilypads.

Tiny Lake, Big Save

A one-acre lake that had been tended to for more than a decade by a group of Virginia high school students was about to lose its caretakers when their school fell victim to consolidation.
A western Maryland newspaper perpetuated the hoax of the winged monster.

Mountain Monster: The Snallygaster

More than 100 years ago, this razor-beaked, lethal-clawed, high-screech creature roamed the western Maryland mountains. Or did it?
The former capitol of the Frog Level crossroads.

Frog Level Lives!

How would a town ever get that name? And why would people still be working hard to preserve its signature building?
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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.

June 29, 2026
©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.

June 29, 2026
Synchronous Fireflies
Creature Feature

The Light Fantastic

Fireflies are struggling with the effects of artificial light.

June 29, 2026

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