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Changing Skylines

December is one of my favorite months to be downtown. In Roanoke, as in many other communities in the Blue Ridge, the windows and sidewalks are transformed by the holiday season. It’s cold, there’s music in the air, and occasionally it snows.

Editor’s Column: Living the War

We are standing on battle ground. Whether we’ve walked Antietam, New Market, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, or just followed mountain trails...

Familiar Faces, New Directions

As editor Cara Ellen Modisett shifts to part-time editor at large of BRC, Kurt Rheinheimer resumes his onetime position of editor.

Synchronicity

“I just love this story!” Elizabeth Hunter told me back in December. She proceeded to read probably half of it to me over the phone, taking me with her to Gray, Tennessee and the fossil site there...

Reader Favorites: Melungeon Mystery Solved? Or Opened to Further Exploration?

Twenty years ago, this magazine introduced the work of Brent Kennedy on his heritage as a Melungeon. The specifics of that research and a recent DNA study do several things, not the least of which is renewing and deepening interest in who we are...

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Historic meets modern in the view from the Taubman Museum’s terrace: downtown Roanoke, with Mill Mountain in the background.

Changing Skylines

December is one of my favorite months to be downtown. In Roanoke, as in many other communities in the Blue Ridge, the windows and sidewalks are transformed by the holiday season. It’s cold, there’s music in the air, and occasionally it snows.
The editor, on Reddish Knob, west of Harrisonburg, Va.

Editor’s Column: Living the War

We are standing on battle ground. Whether we’ve walked Antietam, New Market, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, or just followed mountain trails...
As editor Cara Ellen Modisett shifts to part-time editor at large of BRC, Kurt Rheinheimer resumes his onetime position of editor.

Familiar Faces, New Directions

As editor Cara Ellen Modisett shifts to part-time editor at large of BRC, Kurt Rheinheimer resumes his onetime position of editor.
Cara Ellen Modisett

Synchronicity

“I just love this story!” Elizabeth Hunter told me back in December. She proceeded to read probably half of it to me over the phone, taking me with her to Gray, Tennessee and the fossil site there...
Wayne Winkler: “There are still a great many possibilities open for exploration.”

Reader Favorites: Melungeon Mystery Solved? Or Opened to Further Exploration?

Twenty years ago, this magazine introduced the work of Brent Kennedy on his heritage as a Melungeon. The specifics of that research and a recent DNA study do several things, not the least of which is renewing and deepening interest in who we are...
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Knoxville Asian Festival, August 29-30,  Knoxville, Tennessee. Photo courtesy of Asian Culture Center of TN
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