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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...


Finalists for the 7th Annual AMPC Announced

I am a little late posting this…Congrats to all of the finalists…But starting tomorrow you can view the finalists live at the Turchin Center For The Visual Arts on the campus of Appalachian State University. The exhibition will run from March 5th at 7pm thru June 5th.

The judges reviewed over 1100 images, a record-setting total [...]

NC Cultural Resources » On Earth’s Furrowed Brow: The Appalachian Farm in Photographs

From the Web…

“If a fellow farms hard enough to make something out of it, it’s got to be the hardest work a man’s ever done.” — Lloyd Rigsby

Acclaimed photographer and author Tim Barnwell grew up observing the traditional ways of rural farm families in western North Carolina. Church dinners-on-the grounds, country stores and mule-drawn plows [...]

Hendersonville Storytelling Festival

There is nothing that brings out the kid in all of us like a good story…

Grandmother sat in her favorite rocking chair on the porch peeling apples. Surrounding her were grandchildren listening as she told family stories passed down for generations. During the winter months, grandfather would sit next to the stove smoking his pipe [...]

Max Patch Mountain - Old Time Mountain Living

Located in the Newfound Mountains northwest of Asheville, a short drive south of Hot Springs, Max Patch is the southern most bald on the Appalachian [...]