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November 1, 2026
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Interpretive park ranger Michael Smith loves chatting up the mountains he calls home.
May we all come to reach Elizabeth Hunter's level of appreciation of where we live, whether climbing up from the rubble or lucky enough to have escaped that terrible challenge.
In the face of personal, family and business challenges, Nikki Bettis gathered her 13 children, convinced them to walk the Maine-to-Georgia Appalachian Trail and then went out and did it.
One weekend in May, 1953, a group of southwest Virginia thespian “thieves” raided a New York theater and came back with the goods.
How a Yale-educated missionary preserved a fast-fading tradition in the mountains of western North Carolina.
Interpretive park ranger Michael Smith loves chatting up the mountains he calls home.
May we all come to reach Elizabeth Hunter's level of appreciation of where we live, whether climbing up from the rubble or lucky enough to have escaped that terrible challenge.
In the face of personal, family and business challenges, Nikki Bettis gathered her 13 children, convinced them to walk the Maine-to-Georgia Appalachian Trail and then went out and did it.
One weekend in May, 1953, a group of southwest Virginia thespian “thieves” raided a New York theater and came back with the goods.
How a Yale-educated missionary preserved a fast-fading tradition in the mountains of western North Carolina.
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