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Vote for the Best of Blue Ridge Country!

Got a favorite waterfall? Or small mountain town? We want to know about it! Cast your votes today and enter for a chance to win a $250 gift card!

Foxes at Play: A Photo Essay

It was a photographer’s good luck and privilege to get an invitation to capture images of a family of foxes living in an east Tennessee barn.

The Upside of Everything: ‘The Old Jewish Church’

An old Virginia coal town yields new gems.

Dick Pointer: Enslaved Hero

Westward movement of settlers in the late 1700s resulted in grisly clashes with Shawnee Indians. An enslaved Black man was an unlikely and heroic participant in one clash.

Festive Foods for the Holidays

The authors of our ‘Flavors’ column celebrate the foodiest time of the year with a collection of great tastes and experiences, beginning with ‘a recipe worth the trouble.’

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Vote for the Best of Blue Ridge Country!

Got a favorite waterfall? Or small mountain town? We want to know about it! Cast your votes today and enter for a chance to win a $250 gift card!
Two young kits playfully “fight.” This rough play helps them learn to survive and establishes dominance from a young age.

Foxes at Play: A Photo Essay

It was a photographer’s good luck and privilege to get an invitation to capture images of a family of foxes living in an east Tennessee barn.
An aging 1895 City Hall also held an opera house.

The Upside of Everything: ‘The Old Jewish Church’

An old Virginia coal town yields new gems.
The huge German-barreled, and likely American-stocked, musket in the North House Museum in Lewisburg, West Virginia. The musket is thought by some to be the gun used by Dick Pointer during the attack on Donnally’s Fort.

Dick Pointer: Enslaved Hero

Westward movement of settlers in the late 1700s resulted in grisly clashes with Shawnee Indians. An enslaved Black man was an unlikely and heroic participant in one clash.
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Festive Foods for the Holidays

The authors of our ‘Flavors’ column celebrate the foodiest time of the year with a collection of great tastes and experiences, beginning with ‘a recipe worth the trouble.’
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