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From the Editor: New Life for a Downtown – Mast General Store is Coming!

Our town of Roanoke, Virginia has not had a downtown retail anchor for nearly a quarter century. That will change—and gloriously so—come next year.

From the Editor: Every Day’s a Great Day for a Picnic

If you have the gear and the goodies, the context and the companion, there’s no reason that every lunch in the woods shouldn’t be a full delight.

From the Editor: Army-Surplus Canteens and Packs – Keeping the Old Ways Alive (or not)

The accoutrements for hiking have changed over the years, but remnants of the old ways remain.

From the Editor: The Photo

You’re out doing something you love, and somebody gets a candid shot of it? Might be the best kind of photo there is.

Towns: Finding the Heart and Soul

The magazine debuts a new column this issue—one that goes deep inside the places where we live, the places we come to love.

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The old Heironimus building in downtown Roanoke, Virginia, will get new life when Mast General Store arrives next year.

From the Editor: New Life for a Downtown – Mast General Store is Coming!

Our town of Roanoke, Virginia has not had a downtown retail anchor for nearly a quarter century. That will change—and gloriously so—come next year.
There are hints in this sequence of Kurt Rheinheimer’s brilliant (!)deploying of his rain tarp of what it takes to stop for a great lunch in any season: See silly cap, jillion-dollar rain jacket, waterproof boots and red pack cover still protecting Gail Rheinheimer’s pack contents.

From the Editor: Every Day’s a Great Day for a Picnic

If you have the gear and the goodies, the context and the companion, there’s no reason that every lunch in the woods shouldn’t be a full delight.
The Appalachian Trail shelter in this 1955 photo is strongly suggestive of old ways remaining alive today; the chair and the packs not so much. Kurt Rheinheimer (green hat), here with his late father, also seems to have changed a bit over those years.

From the Editor: Army-Surplus Canteens and Packs – Keeping the Old Ways Alive (or not)

The accoutrements for hiking have changed over the years, but remnants of the old ways remain.
The magic of a candid photo is even more poignant when it’s against a backdrop of Virginia mountains and sky.

From the Editor: The Photo

You’re out doing something you love, and somebody gets a candid shot of it? Might be the best kind of photo there is.
Part of Radford, Virginia’s charm is the Riverway in Bissett Park along the New River.

Towns: Finding the Heart and Soul

The magazine debuts a new column this issue—one that goes deep inside the places where we live, the places we come to love.
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