People of the Mountains

Eager goats race toward their next meal on private property in Cismont, Virginia.

Curios: Natural Vegetation Control – Goat Busters on the Land

Goats eat between 3 and 9% of their body weight each day, and put on a bit of a show while they do it.
The GEICO gecko was the star of an ad that played on the two-state nature of Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia’s State Street, the center of which is the border between the two states.

Curios: Where Blue Ridge States Interlock

A Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia, cemetery may present the ultimate in knitted-together states: Legend has it that some are buried with their heads in Virginia and their feet in Tennessee.
“The World’s Heaviest Twins,” Billy and Benny McCrary, in their wrestling days used a move called the Steamroller. They are buried in their native Hendersonville, North Carolina.

Curios: Heaviest Wrestlers Went at it Hard

Hendersonville, North Carolina’s own Billy and Benny McCrary tipped the scales at a combined 1,500 pounds, and used that weight well in the realm of pro wrestling.
Jon Davenport: “I am kind of biased with salamanders. I mean, they are everywhere, but people just don’t realize how special it is to find one, and to see so many different ones, especially in the Appalachians.”

Of Science and ‘Spring Lizards’: The Joy of Salamanders

Jon Davenport is so enamored with the amphibians that he has his three daughters on a life quest to find a 10th species at their own house.
John Jardine Gross

Guest Column: Look up in Silence at the Stars

John Jardine Goss is president of the Roanoke Valley (Virginia) Astronomical Society, and past president of the Astronomical League, the nation’s largest federation of astronomical societies.
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Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

April 12, 2018

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