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Beach to Bluegrass: Places to Brake on Virginia’s Longest Road

Like others who travel Virginia’s highways and byways on business, I often wonder what great little stories lay just off the four lane. What’s there waiting for me to explore?

Reader Favorites: Ty Cobb: Death in the Dark

Ty Cobb was among the best baseball players ever. What contributed to his success and uncompromising style on the field and in life?

A History of Professional Baseball in Asheville

Among the beauties of minor league baseball is the threads it provides into all of baseball history. In Asheville, N.C., a minor league town since 1897, the threads include the likes of Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Dizzy Dean, Jackie Robinson and Cal Ripken..

Sharyn McCrumb’s Newest Books: Snake Handlers Handled with Respect

There are a few writers who can toss snake handlers, New Age hippies, NASCAR drivers, Baptist preachers and Cherokee ghosts all together and not pull a “Beverly Hillbillies” episode out of it.

What These Trees Can Do

That sucking sound? Well, you can’t hear it at all, but the massive scale of the woolly adelgid’s work on the hemlock trees of the mountains of the South is carried out by tiny insects via even tinier sucking tubes.

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Like others who travel Virginia’s highways and byways on business, I often wonder what great little stories lay just off the four lane. What’s there waiting for me to explore?

Beach to Bluegrass: Places to Brake on Virginia’s Longest Road

Like others who travel Virginia’s highways and byways on business, I often wonder what great little stories lay just off the four lane. What’s there waiting for me to explore?
Ty Cobb reached the big-league Detroit Tigers in 1905 at age 18, three weeks after the death of his father. Photo: from the National Photo Company Collection, Library of Congress.

Reader Favorites: Ty Cobb: Death in the Dark

Ty Cobb was among the best baseball players ever. What contributed to his success and uncompromising style on the field and in life?
"A History of Professional Baseball in Asheville,” Bill Ballew. 128 pp., softcover, $19.99. The History Press, 2007. 866-457-5971, historypress.net.

A History of Professional Baseball in Asheville

Among the beauties of minor league baseball is the threads it provides into all of baseball history. In Asheville, N.C., a minor league town since 1897, the threads include the likes of Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Dizzy Dean, Jackie Robinson and Cal Ripken..
The heroes -and the villains- of the book are journalists.

Sharyn McCrumb’s Newest Books: Snake Handlers Handled with Respect

There are a few writers who can toss snake handlers, New Age hippies, NASCAR drivers, Baptist preachers and Cherokee ghosts all together and not pull a “Beverly Hillbillies” episode out of it.
Disappearing giants. In 10 years, researcher Will Blozan has only found 29 living eastern hemlocks more than 160 feet tall.

What These Trees Can Do

That sucking sound? Well, you can’t hear it at all, but the massive scale of the woolly adelgid’s work on the hemlock trees of the mountains of the South is carried out by tiny insects via even tinier sucking tubes.
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Knoxville Asian Festival, August 29-30,  Knoxville, Tennessee. Photo courtesy of Asian Culture Center of TN
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