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Mimi had a knack for fitting in with everyone she met – from humans to the dogs who lived with Cheryl and Dennis Moretz at the Linville Ridge community.

Reader Favorites: A Love Affair With Mimi

The initial goal was to return the little deer as soon as possible to the wild. But the deer, and the couple it adopted, did not seem to want that to occur...
Music is passed between generations.

40 Reasons We Love the Blue Ridge Region

40 Reasons We Love the Blue Ridge Region
The man and the craft. This photo of Gary Powers was taken in 1963, three years after his capture and soon after he began his association with Lockhead, as a test pilot for the U2 aircraft he'd flown over Russia.

Francis Gary Powers: The Virginia Boy Who Spied On Russia And Came Home To Tell About It

Summer, 1943 Princeton, W.Va. "I left my heart up there, Pap, and I'm goin' back to get it," 14-year-old Francis Gary Powers told his father, Oliver, after his first plane ride - in a Piper Cub...
Circular barns, popular a century ago for their efficiencies of materials, labor and use, have largely left the landscape. One, in the foothills of Virginia, has recently been re-upped for the next 100 years.

The Round Barns of Madison County

Circular barns, popular a century ago for their efficiencies of materials, labor and use, have largely left the landscape. One, in the foothills of Virginia, has recently been re-upped for the next 100 years.
Ty Cobb reached the big-league Detroit Tigers in 1905 at age 18, three weeks after the death of his father. Photo: from the National Photo Company Collection, Library of Congress.

Reader Favorites: Ty Cobb: Death in the Dark

Ty Cobb was among the best baseball players ever. What contributed to his success and uncompromising style on the field and in life?

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Even More Sweet Virginia Breezes

Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

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