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Our Blue Ridge Towns: Sylva/Dillsboro, North Carolina
Where Small Business is Big Business: An hour southwest of Asheville, two adjoining North Carolina towns have earned themselves a string of “firsts” and “onlys.” Read more
Joan Vannorsdall
Thomas, W.Va. – "Everyone’s Hometown"
"Everyone’s Hometown." That’s what you see on the welcome signs coming into Thomas, West Virginia, population 554. Is a hometown feel enough to grow a remote high-valley town surrounded by national forest? Read more
Our Blue Ridge Towns: Whitesburg, Kentucky Comes Back
With the region’s coal mining jobs largely gone, the east Kentucky town is at work on new ways of success. Read more
Chuck Almarez, Fire and Light Gallery
Riding the Art Train: Clifton Forge, Virginia
How does an out-of-the-way mountain town—pretty much left for dead a few decades back— make a comeback? It’s a long story that finally comes down to this: creativity and courage. Read more