It’s Been Six Years And The Mountain Dream Still Grows

Mountain Home

This site started six years ago today on Blogger.com before I moved it to it’s own site. In those years my North Carolina Mountain Dreams have evolved a bit from the original. I still look forward to each time we can break away from home and drive the mountain roads I have come to love. The trips do [...]

Jim Casada’s Smoky Mountain Christmas

winter cabin

Jim Casada has another story up at The Tuckasegee Reader. This is how it started:

Virtually everyone of my generation who grew up in the Great Smokies, and for that matter most anywhere in the readily identifiable if somewhat geographically ill-defined region known as Appalachia, knew something about hard times.

In the 1950s and 1960s, young [...]

Appalachian Home Cooking: History, Culture, and Recipes

Mark F. Sohn’s classic book, Mountain Country Cooking, was a James Beard Award nominee in 1997. In Appalachian Home Cooking, Sohn expands and improves upon his earlier work by using his extensive knowledge of cooking to uncover the romantic secrets of Appalachian food, both within and beyond the kitchen. The foods of Appalachia [...]

Blue Ridge Mountains 2011 Scenic Wall Calendar

 

Gorgeous photographs featuring the natural wonders of the Blue Ridge Mountains fill this wall calendar and keepsake. Below the stunning views of endless mountain ridges and majestic waterfalls, all major holidays and moon phases are marked, and there's plenty of room to keep track of appointments, meetings, and special events.

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