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Multicultural Sites in 7 States

Start your travel planning for ‘24 with this exploration of traditions, tastes and more from all over the world—and all in the Southern mountains.

Curios: How I Helped Save an Icon

Does renovating a 1903 home prepare you for up-in-the-air restoration of a piece of treasured Americana?

Curios: Shanks Oak Falls with Grace

Jonesborough, Tennessee’s signature white oak succumbed to a storm last summer, but its legacy lives on.

Curios: Frosty the West Virginian

The winter character came to be from a song written by West Virginian Jack Rollins, who is buried in the town of Keyser.

Curios: Star Struck in Front Royal, Virginia – Bing’s 1950 Home Run

Bing Crosby, the celebrated singer, actor and sportsman, created a lasting memorial in the form of a baseball stadium on a day when 25,000 people came out to help create it.

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Helvetia, West Virginia’s Fasnacht celebration is held the Saturday before Fat Tuesday each February.

Multicultural Sites in 7 States

Start your travel planning for ‘24 with this exploration of traditions, tastes and more from all over the world—and all in the Southern mountains.
Painters including Angela Minor elevate to work on a Rock City barn.

Curios: How I Helped Save an Icon

Does renovating a 1903 home prepare you for up-in-the-air restoration of a piece of treasured Americana?
The stump of the fallen Shanks Oak in Jonesborough, Tennessee, is celebrated by about 20 people who gathered soon after the 700-year-old tree was felled by a storm.

Curios: Shanks Oak Falls with Grace

Jonesborough, Tennessee’s signature white oak succumbed to a storm last summer, but its legacy lives on.
Modern-day Frosty (Mike Ryan) hangs out with Santa Claus in Keyser, West Virginia.

Curios: Frosty the West Virginian

The winter character came to be from a song written by West Virginian Jack Rollins, who is buried in the town of Keyser.
Crosby thrilled locals and showed off his best moves at a square dance named in his honor.

Curios: Star Struck in Front Royal, Virginia – Bing’s 1950 Home Run

Bing Crosby, the celebrated singer, actor and sportsman, created a lasting memorial in the form of a baseball stadium on a day when 25,000 people came out to help create it.
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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
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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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