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A 75-Year Journey Story

Journey stories. They are their own genre, and they occupy a place in many people's childhood reading.

Moon, Music and Magic

Once a month or so, I drive southwest out of Roanoke to rehearse with a fiddle player friend of mine...

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.

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Cara Ellen Modisett

A 75-Year Journey Story

Journey stories. They are their own genre, and they occupy a place in many people's childhood reading.
Cara Ellen Modisett

Moon, Music and Magic

Once a month or so, I drive southwest out of Roanoke to rehearse with a fiddle player friend of mine...
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.
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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
©Duncan Seaman
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
Creature Feature

The Light Fantastic

Fireflies are struggling with the effects of artificial light.

June 29, 2026

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