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100-Year Anniversary: Low-Tech Library Celebrates

The Blowing Rock, North Carolina, library’s card catalogue is intact.

Book Note – Landings: A Crooked Farm Year

by Arwen Donahue. Hub City Press, 2022. 257 pp.

Skywatch: Discover a Hidden Star Cluster

Known popularly as the “Beehive,” this cluster lies almost 600 light-years from our little world.

Environmental Notes: Land Protected, Farms Funded

Henderson County, North Carolina, turns 76 acres to public land; Virginia Tech to provide payments to farms that protect land and air.

Edna Lewis Menu Trail: Enjoy Legacy Dining

The ‘Grand Dame of Southern Cooking’ is also to be honored with a historical highway marker in Virginia.

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The Blowing Rock Library is in many ways a museum of libraries past as well as a functioning library.

100-Year Anniversary: Low-Tech Library Celebrates

The Blowing Rock, North Carolina, library’s card catalogue is intact.
Landings: A Crooked Farm Year by Arwen Donahue. Hub City Press, 2022. 257 pp.

Book Note – Landings: A Crooked Farm Year

by Arwen Donahue. Hub City Press, 2022. 257 pp.
skywatch

Skywatch: Discover a Hidden Star Cluster

Known popularly as the “Beehive,” this cluster lies almost 600 light-years from our little world.
Virginia Tech’s new program, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will assist farmers in implementing practices designed to reduce greenhouse gases that cause climate change.

Environmental Notes: Land Protected, Farms Funded

Henderson County, North Carolina, turns 76 acres to public land; Virginia Tech to provide payments to farms that protect land and air.
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Edna Lewis Menu Trail: Enjoy Legacy Dining

The ‘Grand Dame of Southern Cooking’ is also to be honored with a historical highway marker in Virginia.
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Vibrant Monarch butterfly clings to its translucent dew covered cocoon
Creature Feature

Monarch Mimickers

It’s easy to mistake other orange species for the king of fall butterflies.

August 26, 2026
At Coopers Rock State Forest, new Stargazer cabins invite guests to look up through skylights and telescopes.
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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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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

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