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Photo Essay: Spring Flora & Fauna

Come springtime, the forest explodes with new life. Our contributing photographers have the beautiful, charming and sometimes surprising pictorial evidence.

Great Scenic Byways in Seven States

Combine mountain scenic beauty, a bounty of cultural and historical stops with great places to eat and to spend the night and you could plan a year’s worth of great travel. Here we go!

Curios: The Bridge the Soviets Nearly Built On the West Virginia-Kentucky Border

In the 1970s, the tiny West Virginia community of Vulcan became so desperate for a crossing into Kentucky that they reached out to Russia.

Curios: Mountain Mints of the 1800s – First U.S. $1 Gold Coin Was Carolina-Made

The pre-California gold rushes in North Carolina and Georgia overwhelmed the Philadelphia mint to the point that gold coins came to be struck here in the Southern Appalachians.

Curios: The Walton War – Two College Presidents Sort It Out

In the early 1800s, Georgia and North Carolina went briefly into battle over a strip of land that is now part of North Carolina’s Transylvania County.

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Young foxes emerge from their den under the watchful eye of their mother in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. From the photographer: “As I sat in my photo-blind, the den glowed as the sun was setting to create a dramatic backlight effect.”

Photo Essay: Spring Flora & Fauna

Come springtime, the forest explodes with new life. Our contributing photographers have the beautiful, charming and sometimes surprising pictorial evidence.
Brasstown Bald, at 4,784 feet, is the highest mountain in Georgia and the defining feature of the Russell-Brasstown Scenic Byway.

Great Scenic Byways in Seven States

Combine mountain scenic beauty, a bounty of cultural and historical stops with great places to eat and to spend the night and you could plan a year’s worth of great travel. Here we go!
Undated photo shows the remains of the original swinging bridge from Vulcan, West Virginia, across the Tug River to Kentucky.

Curios: The Bridge the Soviets Nearly Built On the West Virginia-Kentucky Border

In the 1970s, the tiny West Virginia community of Vulcan became so desperate for a crossing into Kentucky that they reached out to Russia.
North Georgia’s U.S.-sanctioned Dahlonega Mint building, shown here in the late 1870s, was opened to supplement the original U.S. mint at Philadelphia.

Curios: Mountain Mints of the 1800s – First U.S. $1 Gold Coin Was Carolina-Made

The pre-California gold rushes in North Carolina and Georgia overwhelmed the Philadelphia mint to the point that gold coins came to be struck here in the Southern Appalachians.
Soon after Buncombe County, North Carolina, men captured 10 Walton County, Georgia officals, the conflict ended.

Curios: The Walton War – Two College Presidents Sort It Out

In the early 1800s, Georgia and North Carolina went briefly into battle over a strip of land that is now part of North Carolina’s Transylvania County.
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