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Raggedy Ann And Andy’s Mountain Home

Alive and Well In The Deep Deep Woods.

Should We Save the Vanishing Balds? The Forest Service Says “Yes”

The Southern Appalachian regions of North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia contain about 2,500 acres of "balds"-high, open meadows along the ridges of mountain peaks. How they got there and how to keep them there have become hot topics.

Ray Hicks: America’s Premiere Storyman

Beech Mountain Native Says it "Comes Natural"

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Asheville Days

By the time “The Great Gatsby” author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his troubled wife Zelda reached Asheville in 1935, they were already in a period of serious decline.

Hatfields & McCoys, Revisited, Part 11: “It’s The Pigs! “

I am sure that many intelligent readers of feud books wonder, as I did for several decades, why people believe the cartoonish feud yarns.

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The Last Great Company in Cashiers. N.C. offers all manner of Raggedy Ann dolls.

Raggedy Ann And Andy’s Mountain Home

Alive and Well In The Deep Deep Woods.
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Should We Save the Vanishing Balds? The Forest Service Says “Yes”

The Southern Appalachian regions of North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia contain about 2,500 acres of "balds"-high, open meadows along the ridges of mountain peaks. How they got there and how to keep them there have become hot topics.
Casting a spell. Storyteller Ray Hicks: "Stories are like panther – they won't let go of me."

Ray Hicks: America’s Premiere Storyman

Beech Mountain Native Says it "Comes Natural"
This photo of F. Scott Fitzgerald was taken in Asheville in 1935. He was 39, alcoholic and unsure of his talent.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Asheville Days

By the time “The Great Gatsby” author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his troubled wife Zelda reached Asheville in 1935, they were already in a period of serious decline.
Pictured from left to right: Randolph "Ole Ran'l" McCoy, Johnse Hatfield, Roseanna McCoy and Capt. William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield.

Hatfields & McCoys, Revisited, Part 11: “It’s The Pigs! “

I am sure that many intelligent readers of feud books wonder, as I did for several decades, why people believe the cartoonish feud yarns.
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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
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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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