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  • Mar 5
    Finalists for the 7th Annual Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition
    Boone
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  • Mar 13
    Why are the Southern Appalachians the Epicenter for Salamander Diversity?
    Asheville
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  • Mar 27
    Ramp It Up! Festival
    Cherokee
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  • Apr 3
    Trout Derby - Blowing Rock, North Carolina Calendar
    Blowing Rock
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  • Apr 24
    McDowell County - Pioneer Day
    Old Fort
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  • May 13
    Asheville Bikefest - Blue Ridge Run
    Fletcher
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  • Aug 27
    Music On The Mountaintop Festival
    Boone
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"It is a beautiful book with gorgeous color pictures. Text boxes detailing a particular subject such as rhododendrons or Daniel Boone are sprinkled throughout. But why did they have to use black text on a dark purple background for these boxes? They are so difficult to read. Except for that shortcoming, this book is meant to be used, not to be left on the bookshelf. I take my copy wherever I think I am going to be on the Parkway. As for the answers to the questions above? Check pages 120, 129 and 108, respectively."

I couldn't agree more...


The Grandfather Mountain Camera Clinic

This is one of the High Country events that I have on my life list of things I must do…I’ll make it yet.

August 15-16, 2009

2009 speakers include Bill Fortney, John Chastain, Duane Hall and Melissa Southern.

The Grandfather Mountain Camera Clinic was founded in 1952 by the late Hugh Morton.

A freelance newspaper photographer himself, Morton wanted [...]

Little Switzerland, NC

So I wasn’t the first person to come to the conclusion that it was a great place in the mountains. I still got there…Just 90 years too late.

LITTLE SWITZERLAND — Almost exactly a century ago, a man who was to become one of North Carolina’s most contradictory figures reined in his mule to drink in [...]

25th Annual Valle Crucis Park Auction

We are pleased to invite you to “The 25th Annual Valle Crucis Park Auction” on Saturday August 29th, 2009 at 9:00AM at The Valle Crucis Elemtary School

For more information or to donate an item, please call Caroline at 828-963-9239

Dust is flying…Remodeling Underway

It’s much to hot to play outside here for the past few weeks so I’ve been playing with these pages. New themes, new plugins, new layouts. Shoving the sofa over there and the big easy chair over here, adding a reading light for these old eyes…Sweeping up in places and slapping new paint on the [...]