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Faces of Green: Protecting the Mountain Region

As Earth Day approaches on April 22, we salute people dedicating their lives to the cause year-round.
Sheets gathering sugar maple sap from a neighbor’s farm.

Old-Fashioned Maple Syrup

West Virginian Bob Sheets has stuck with the old ways—well, the 20th-century ways—of creating maple sweetness.
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.

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