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Is Henry Lee a Dixie Dingo?

A good dog is hard to find. (But sometimes, you get lucky.)

Girl Power, Circa 1940: Building The Bomb (and Not Knowing It) in East Tennessee

Thousands of young women from eastern Tennessee performed a hugely patriotic service in the 1940s, unaware of what they were doing.

Photo Essay: Critters, Creatures and Other Wild Things

With warmer weather, the mountains come alive with creepers and crawlers, leapers and alighters—all moving about against the backdrop of full green.

Wytheville’s ‘Summer Without Children’

What was it that caused one little Virginia mountain town to suddenly find itself faced, in the summer of 1950, with 200 cases of polio amid a population of just 5,500?

Evan Williams: Grafting Trees and Drafting Fiction

For Henderson County apple-farmer-turned-novelist Evan Williams, a lifetime in the orchard yields a bounty of stories.

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Is Henry Lee a Dixie Dingo?

A good dog is hard to find. (But sometimes, you get lucky.)
Female high school graduates were recruited for positions as “cubicle operators” at Y-12, and have been more recently referred to as “Calutron Girls.” Ruth Huddleston is third back on the left, seated.

Girl Power, Circa 1940: Building The Bomb (and Not Knowing It) in East Tennessee

Thousands of young women from eastern Tennessee performed a hugely patriotic service in the 1940s, unaware of what they were doing.
The blue dasher dragonfly is seen most often near mountain ponds, lakes and other still waters.

Photo Essay: Critters, Creatures and Other Wild Things

With warmer weather, the mountains come alive with creepers and crawlers, leapers and alighters—all moving about against the backdrop of full green.
These five Wytheville children were transported to Roanoke Hospital, where they breathed with the assistance of the hospital’s iron lungs.

Wytheville’s ‘Summer Without Children’

What was it that caused one little Virginia mountain town to suddenly find itself faced, in the summer of 1950, with 200 cases of polio amid a population of just 5,500?
Farmer and author Evan Willams’ orchard grows heirloom apples.

Evan Williams: Grafting Trees and Drafting Fiction

For Henderson County apple-farmer-turned-novelist Evan Williams, a lifetime in the orchard yields a bounty of stories.
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Vibrant Monarch butterfly clings to its translucent dew covered cocoon
Creature Feature

Monarch Mimickers

It’s easy to mistake other orange species for the king of fall butterflies.

August 26, 2026
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

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