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Inset Image: Record-setting Appalachian Trail runner and author Jennifer Pharr Davis and Alan Shuptrine have collaborated to create the book "I Come From A Place" which contains 80 of his paintings.

Main Image: “Away for the Summer.”

‘I Come from a Place’

Tennessee watercolorist captures the people and places along the Appalachian Trail.
This is the second of four waterfalls known as “Blue Hole Falls” in the Cherokee National Forest near Elizabethton, Tennessee. Only this one and the third are readily accessible.

Photo Essay: Fabulous Falls

Ready to cool off for summer even if you can’t get outside right now? Our contributing photographers to the rescue! Dive into these cool mountain falls.
Gloria Edwards was given the postcard by her mother, who found it going through old love letters from her late husband.

Home Again: The Chimney Rock Postcard

Things can find their proper place, even if it takes 60 years.
Sunset over a mountain range festival guide cover | Blue Ridge Country

2019 Mountain Festivals Guide

Our annual festival guide points the way to great gatherings from the Virginias and the Carolinas to Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky. Find food, beer and wine plus rubber ducky races, apples, peaches, barbecue, bluegrass – and even Santa Claus.
A hummingbird feeds on the sweet nectar of some east Tennessee phlox up Clarks Creek, near Jonesborough, Tennessee.

Photo Essay: Wildlife & Wildflowers

It’s the pretty season in the Southern Appalachians.

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