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Guest Column: Time to Travel Again?

Carl Sobocinski is the owner of Table 301 Restaurant Group in Greenville, South Carolina. "Travel has suffered and our towns are hurting. Our independent restaurants need you more than ever. There is so much to get out and explore."

Guest Column: Look up in Silence at the Stars

John Jardine Goss is president of the Roanoke Valley (Virginia) Astronomical Society, and past president of the Astronomical League, the nation’s largest federation of astronomical societies.

Guest Column: The Enthusiastic Mutt

Susan Wagner works as a small-animal veterinarian at Cedar Ridge Animal Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, and considers her profession to be the best job in the world.

Guest Column: When Space Becomes Sacred

Cara Ellen Modisett was part of the Leisure Media 360 staff from 1998 until 2012, and editor of this magazine for four of those years. Her work as a teacher, writer and pianist inspired a calling in another direction.

Guest Column: Trajectory

As humans learned to live with fewer trips to the store and the office, ... the earth took a deep breath.

Current Issue

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Guest Column: Time to Travel Again?

Carl Sobocinski is the owner of Table 301 Restaurant Group in Greenville, South Carolina. "Travel has suffered and our towns are hurting. Our independent restaurants need you more than ever. There is so much to get out and explore."
John Jardine Gross

Guest Column: Look up in Silence at the Stars

John Jardine Goss is president of the Roanoke Valley (Virginia) Astronomical Society, and past president of the Astronomical League, the nation’s largest federation of astronomical societies.
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Guest Column: The Enthusiastic Mutt

Susan Wagner works as a small-animal veterinarian at Cedar Ridge Animal Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, and considers her profession to be the best job in the world.
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Guest Column: When Space Becomes Sacred

Cara Ellen Modisett was part of the Leisure Media 360 staff from 1998 until 2012, and editor of this magazine for four of those years. Her work as a teacher, writer and pianist inspired a calling in another direction.
Anna Ziegler

Guest Column: Trajectory

As humans learned to live with fewer trips to the store and the office, ... the earth took a deep breath.
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Departments

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
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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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