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Pirate Days at Smith Mountain Lake

The fourth annual weekend-long event promises fun for all, from pirate ship battles to parades and much, much more.

Seeing Southern: Climbing Higher at Aska Lodge

As a traveler, we come across destinations for which we long to return. Time and geography make it impossible sometimes. However, when you discover perfection as we have, you take advantage. Aska Lodge in Blue Ridge, Georgia, is such a place.

Mountain Curios: The Wizard of South Mountain

Many believed in the magic of Wizard Zittle to cure their ills and change their fortune. His own fortune changed after he broke the magicians’ code.

Mountain Curios: The Little Train that Could is Now a Rail Trail

The Virginia Blue Ridge Railway survived war, the depression, changing extraction goals and much more. Now it has a new life.

Mountain Curios: Was Abe Lincoln a North Carolinian?

Success does have many fathers, but as many as 17 candidates for the presidential paternity?

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Pirate Days at Smith Mountain Lake

The fourth annual weekend-long event promises fun for all, from pirate ship battles to parades and much, much more.
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Seeing Southern: Climbing Higher at Aska Lodge

As a traveler, we come across destinations for which we long to return. Time and geography make it impossible sometimes. However, when you discover perfection as we have, you take advantage. Aska Lodge in Blue Ridge, Georgia, is such a place.
A group of unidentified Zittles clusters around the family home in this undated photo.

Mountain Curios: The Wizard of South Mountain

Many believed in the magic of Wizard Zittle to cure their ills and change their fortune. His own fortune changed after he broke the magicians’ code.
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Mountain Curios: The Little Train that Could is Now a Rail Trail

The Virginia Blue Ridge Railway survived war, the depression, changing extraction goals and much more. Now it has a new life.
No photos exist of Abraham Enloe, the possible father of Abraham Lincoln, but one of his 16 children keenly resembles the president.

Mountain Curios: Was Abe Lincoln a North Carolinian?

Success does have many fathers, but as many as 17 candidates for the presidential paternity?
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Knoxville Asian Festival, August 29-30,  Knoxville, Tennessee. Photo courtesy of Asian Culture Center of TN
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