Saving mountains
From the Web… Grandfather Mountain moved one step closer to becoming a state park when the Council of State on Tuesday approved North Carolina’s purchase of a large chunk of
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Author: Blue Ridge Dreamer
Reynolds Plantation developer acquires N.C. golf community – The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:
News from the Web Greensboro, Ga.-based Reynolds Signature Communities, a subsidiary of Linger Longer Communities LLC, said in a news release late Tuesday it has acquired Laurelmor, a 6,200-acre master-planned
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A path through these tough times | BlueRidgeNow.com | Times-News Online | Hendersonville, NC
News from the Web Last month at an event commemorating the Blue Ridge Parkway a Depression-era federal project, Virginia’s Governor Tim Kaine said, “Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.”
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Blue Ridge Mountain Blues
Sitting here in Texas this is what I feel… Update: February 2026 The Heart of the Blue Ridge Blues The song captures a very specific type of longing—Hiraeth—a deep yearning
Keep readingMax Patch Mountain – Old Time Mountain Living
I found this video on YouTube today… Max Patch Hike a section of the famous Appalachian National Scenic Trail (or A.T.) on top of Max Patch Mountain near Hot Springs.
Keep readingThe Rural Life – Back to Bare Ground
The new year is always a kind of chronological trope, an imaginary point of debarkation. We are so deeply knotted to time past and time future that come Jan. 1,
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From Coffee Muses A fifty year old Christmas Card greeting being sent from my family one more time just as it was in 1958. Merry Christmas all… I’ll be doing
Keep reading“Too Pretty to Develop” – FRIENDS of the Blue Ridge Parkway
The Conservation Trust for North Carolina (CTNC) has purchased the 101-acre Jackson Knob Cove tract in McDowell County, on the Blue Ridge escarpment in the Catawba River Basin. The property,
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