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Livestock in My Living Room

Winter can be hard on newborn farm stock. And despite painstaking care from owners, some survive, and some don’t.

Montana Young

Forget bluegrass stereotypes of old bearded men in overalls. Part of the reason bluegrass music thrives is its generation-to-generation permanence. Montana Young, who lives east of the Crooked Road in southwest Virginia, is one of the faces of what s

Rhonda Vincent: Back to Bluegrass

Well, it was a musical family, traced back at least five generations of the Vincent family, so it was a way of life, and just something that my family did.

Rhonda Vincent: Back to Bluegrass

Childsville, North Carolina: Lost, Found, Lost Forever

If you visit the beautiful Toe River Valley today to look for Childsville, you won’t find it. The town was located in what became Avery County 100 years ago. But the town is not in Avery County. The town is gone.

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Young animals can be needy, sometimes needing as much care and specialized attention as a human baby.

Livestock in My Living Room

Winter can be hard on newborn farm stock. And despite painstaking care from owners, some survive, and some don’t.
Montana Young. Her fiddle was made by Arthur Connor, of Copper Hill, Va.

Montana Young

Forget bluegrass stereotypes of old bearded men in overalls. Part of the reason bluegrass music thrives is its generation-to-generation permanence. Montana Young, who lives east of the Crooked Road in southwest Virginia, is one of the faces of what s
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Rhonda Vincent: Back to Bluegrass

Well, it was a musical family, traced back at least five generations of the Vincent family, so it was a way of life, and just something that my family did.
rhonda-vincent

Rhonda Vincent: Back to Bluegrass

Dr. Ebenezer Childs, Lysander’s father, came south in 1850.

Childsville, North Carolina: Lost, Found, Lost Forever

If you visit the beautiful Toe River Valley today to look for Childsville, you won’t find it. The town was located in what became Avery County 100 years ago. But the town is not in Avery County. The town is gone.
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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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