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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...


2010 Valle Country Fair

The photo above is one of my favorites from the Valle Crucis area…I stumbled across it at the Valle Country Fair website a number of years ago and it graces my desktop every fall. The fair itself is still on my list of things to do in North Carolina…We just haven’t [...]

Maverick Farms: Farm-CSA

I saw an announcement on the webs and tooled over to their website. It looks like they are doubling the number of subscriptions. If I was only living in the area…

Maverick Farms Launches High Country CSA!

Maverick Farms has launched the High Country CSA, a community-supported agriculture (CSA) project linking area consumers to several local vegetable [...]

Are You Going To The Fair?

The Valle Country Fair. The 31st Annual Valle Country Fair is October 17, 2009 (always the 3rd Saturday in October).

Photo by Catherine Morton

A busy tent community is set up in the center of a huge hayfield in the center of one of the most picturesque valleys in the North Carolina mountains during the peak [...]

Blue Ridge blog: Come with me...

I walked the Valle this morning. I started under the veil of fog. By the time I parked my Jeep near the Goodnight Farm, blue skies peaked overtop the clouds near the Taylor’s [...]