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2023 Festival & Event Guide – July & August

Food and drink! Music and artworks! Seasonal celebrations galore! Pick your favorite festival theme and start planning.

2023 Festival & Event Guide – May & June

Food and drink! Music and artworks! Seasonal celebrations galore! Pick your favorite festival theme and start planning.

2023 Festival & Event Guide

Food and drink! Music and artworks! Seasonal celebrations galore! Pick your favorite festival theme and start planning.

Adventures at the Owl Box

If you live in a neighborhood and have a longing to photograph owls, one solution is to build a split-log house as a lure and hope for the best.

How Does Her Garden Grow?

Kati Blalock tends anemones to zinnias at her East Tennessee flower farm.

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Balloons Over Rockbridge Hot Air Balloon and Music Festival, July 1-2, Lexington, Virginia.

2023 Festival & Event Guide – July & August

Food and drink! Music and artworks! Seasonal celebrations galore! Pick your favorite festival theme and start planning.
The Greenbrier Concourse d’Elegance, May 7, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.

2023 Festival & Event Guide – May & June

Food and drink! Music and artworks! Seasonal celebrations galore! Pick your favorite festival theme and start planning.
Redwing Roots Music Festival, June 23-25, Mount Solon, Virginia.

2023 Festival & Event Guide

Food and drink! Music and artworks! Seasonal celebrations galore! Pick your favorite festival theme and start planning.
It took six weeks, but then an eastern screech owl showed up at the structure Ryan Rice created with that hope.

Adventures at the Owl Box

If you live in a neighborhood and have a longing to photograph owls, one solution is to build a split-log house as a lure and hope for the best.
Kati Blalock says of her second career, “As long as what you’re doing is what you’re passionate about, then it’s worth it.”

How Does Her Garden Grow?

Kati Blalock tends anemones to zinnias at her East Tennessee flower farm.
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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
©Duncan Seaman
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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