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Ward Nichols, Painter

Ward Nichols, already into the conversation before we started recording: …the coalfields of southern West Virginia. My wife was a North Carolina girl and I moved down here after being here often with her family, liked it, stayed, she died, and a good

Nickel Creek’s Sean Watkins

I know the beginnings of Nickel Creek go way far back – you heard bluegrass at a young age, but not anywhere close to the Appalachian mountains. I wondered if you could tell me about that first experience with bluegrass.

Carl Powell, Stained Glass

Inspired by the works of constructionist artists such as Kandinsky, Asheville-based glass artist Carl Powell crafts designs that draw the eye upward, above the mountains to the sky. “Solar Dream,” a piece Powell created for the Public Art Commission

Tony Rice, The Eccentric Flat-Picker

Rice’s flatpick guitar work lived up to his legend for talent – and for eccentricity, at least musically.

Marie Spaeder Haas

Now a resident of Ocoee, Tenn., a valley community about 70 miles west of Shooting Creek, Haas is still surrounded by mountains.

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Ward Nichols, Painter

Ward Nichols, already into the conversation before we started recording: …the coalfields of southern West Virginia. My wife was a North Carolina girl and I moved down here after being here often with her family, liked it, stayed, she died, and a good
Nickel Creek

Nickel Creek’s Sean Watkins

I know the beginnings of Nickel Creek go way far back – you heard bluegrass at a young age, but not anywhere close to the Appalachian mountains. I wondered if you could tell me about that first experience with bluegrass.
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Carl Powell, Stained Glass

Inspired by the works of constructionist artists such as Kandinsky, Asheville-based glass artist Carl Powell crafts designs that draw the eye upward, above the mountains to the sky. “Solar Dream,” a piece Powell created for the Public Art Commission
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Tony Rice, The Eccentric Flat-Picker

Rice’s flatpick guitar work lived up to his legend for talent – and for eccentricity, at least musically.
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Marie Spaeder Haas

Now a resident of Ocoee, Tenn., a valley community about 70 miles west of Shooting Creek, Haas is still surrounded by mountains.
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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
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The Light Fantastic

Fireflies are struggling with the effects of artificial light.

June 29, 2026

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