Guest Columnists

Betsy Teter's guest column describes her childhood want to visit Ghost Town in Maggie Valley.

Bill Burnham is the owner-operator, with his wife, Mary Burnham, of Burnham Guides LLC, which combines their work as guidebook authors and kayak guides.

Suzi Parron is the author of “Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement” and “Following the Barn Quilt Trail.”

The Cherokee people called the southern Appalachian mountains “shaconage” (sha-con-oh-hey) or “place of the blue smoke.”

Mallory McDuff has raised her two daughters on the campus of Warren Wilson College for the past 17 years.