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Road to Anywhere Else

Or so Jane Hicks’ home once seemed to be. The award-winning poet and quilter lives in Blountville, Tenn., from where she coined the term “cosmic possum.”

Moon, Music and Magic

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

Phil Francis

Phil Francis’ career with the National Park Service spans 34 years and includes assignments at Shenandoah, Yosemite and Great Smoky Mountains national parks and the Southwest Regional Office in Santa Fe, N.M...

Rx: Get Them Outside!

Rick Van Noy is the author of “A Natural Sense of Wonder: Connecting Kids With Nature Through the Seasons,” and a professor of English at Radford and University in Virginia.

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.

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Or so Jane Hicks’ home once seemed to be. The award-winning poet and quilter lives in Blountville, Tenn., from where she coined the term “cosmic possum.”

Road to Anywhere Else

Or so Jane Hicks’ home once seemed to be. The award-winning poet and quilter lives in Blountville, Tenn., from where she coined the term “cosmic possum.”
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...
Phil Francis’ career with the National Park Service spans 34 years and includes assignments at Shenandoah, Yosemite and Great Smoky Mountains national parks and the Southwest Regional Office in Santa Fe, N.M. Last November, he became superintendent of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Phil Francis

Phil Francis’ career with the National Park Service spans 34 years and includes assignments at Shenandoah, Yosemite and Great Smoky Mountains national parks and the Southwest Regional Office in Santa Fe, N.M...
Rick Van Noy explores the natural with son Sam and daughter Elliott.

Rx: Get Them Outside!

Rick Van Noy is the author of “A Natural Sense of Wonder: Connecting Kids With Nature Through the Seasons,” and a professor of English at Radford and University in Virginia.
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.
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