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Brown Mountain Lights: The Mystery Continues (and Maybe Even Deepens)

Since we last explored the Brown Mountain Lights (March/April 1995), new scientific research teams were formed, the Burke County Tourism Authority offered sold-out symposia, the lights were featured in a National Geographic show and more.

Jeremy Arch Displays Cherokee Ways

The North Carolina native offers tours at the Oconaluftee Indian Village.

Bird Man

Chris Kappler turns flying obsession into soaring sideline business. A chance encounter with a discerning pilot changed a 15-year-old’s life forever.

Mountain Traditions: Back to Business, Decades Later

A happy accident led Nancy Bruns to revitalize her family’s 200-year-old West Virginia salt-making business.

A Town Comes to Peace: The Elephant in the Train Yard

In September 1916, the eastern Tennessee town of Erwin earned a notoriety that would shadow it for a century, when a five-ton elephant was lynched in the railyard, suspended from a railroad derrick before a crowd hungry for her blood.

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Ed Phillips took this shot of the lights at night.

Brown Mountain Lights: The Mystery Continues (and Maybe Even Deepens)

Since we last explored the Brown Mountain Lights (March/April 1995), new scientific research teams were formed, the Burke County Tourism Authority offered sold-out symposia, the lights were featured in a National Geographic show and more.
Jeremy Arch talks about the Oconaluftee Indian Village. The village stands adjacent to a playhouse hosting summer productions of the outdoor drama “Unto These Hills."

Jeremy Arch Displays Cherokee Ways

The North Carolina native offers tours at the Oconaluftee Indian Village.
Chris Kappler (inset) does a loop-de-loop over West Virginia’s New River Gorge for a Wild Blue Adventure customer in his restored 1943 Boeing Stearman. With each aerial tour, pilot Chris Kappler is transformed into a World War II flying ace.

Bird Man

Chris Kappler turns flying obsession into soaring sideline business. A chance encounter with a discerning pilot changed a 15-year-old’s life forever.
Nancy Bruns and her brother, Lewis Payne, have been harvesting salt since 2014.

Mountain Traditions: Back to Business, Decades Later

A happy accident led Nancy Bruns to revitalize her family’s 200-year-old West Virginia salt-making business.
Main Street Erwin comes alive for the Great Outdoors Festival, even in the rain.

A Town Comes to Peace: The Elephant in the Train Yard

In September 1916, the eastern Tennessee town of Erwin earned a notoriety that would shadow it for a century, when a five-ton elephant was lynched in the railyard, suspended from a railroad derrick before a crowd hungry for her blood.
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