Beech Mountain

I saw this on Facebook and felt the need to share…

High Country Thanksgiving Traditions – Blind Pig & The Acorn

If you haven’t discovered Tipper’s blog Blind Pig & The Acorn yet, this is a good time to wander on over. Tipper has a guest post by Jim Casada about the Thanksgiving traditions of his youth in the Smoky Mountains. Go on over and check it out…

For me personally, it is a day when nostalgia reigns [...]

Sylva, North Carolina

How A Town Got Its Name

Webster – Twilight was slipping down on the little mountain village and fate was trudging along the road that wound up out of the valley to the east. Oil lamps were beginning to wink from windows among the thinly scattered houses along the wagon-rutted, red clay street. A [...]

Blue Ridge Mountain Host Region is Anchored Mountain Metropolis of Asheville, NC

Article by Lydia Quinn

The passing of the Blue Ridge Parkway through the mountain metropolis of Asheville, NC is one beautiful coincidence – well not really. In truth, Asheville community leaders of the day campaigned long and hard to bring the picturesque highway through the Blue Ridge Mountains to their doorstep. Today the area offers [...]