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“Almost heaven” — it’s more than a line in a John Denver song. When you travel along West Virginia’s Highway 20 you may come as close to heaven as you can get and live to tell about it. Just beyond the cluster of stores, restaurants and hotels near the turnpike in Princeton, this country road leads you to some of
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by mikerhicks The Great Smoky Mountains National Park boasts ten large developed campgrounds with more than a thousand campsites for RVs, trailers, or tent camping, and 100 undeveloped sites. Roanoke Mountain Campground is one of these quaint, quiet little campgrounds located at Milepost 120.4. There are no showers, no hookups, just beautiful little campsites on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Most
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I found this on YouTube…Enjoy.
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I just saw this on YouTube and I had to share…An Adirondack Fall video. http://visitadirondacks.com The Adirondack Park‘s fall foliage season is the longest and most vibrant in the East! Enjoy premiere New York canoeing and kayaking amidst beautiful fall foliage, or step out for either an easy hike or a challenging High Peaks trek on an Adirondack hiking trail.
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Coming up next month, October 4th and 5th, 2012 at Athens State University. The Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention is known as the “Granddaddy of Midsouth Fiddlers Conventions” for its role in reviving the tradition of competition in old time music. Approximately, 15,000 people are expected to attend the convention this year from more than 30 states. The convention
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Decatur, Ala. – Art On The Square arrives September 8, 2012, bringing with it approximately 50 selected visual artists who will display their work under the trees in downtown Athens. The public is invited to admire the work, and for those who can’t walk away empty-handed, original pieces of work will be available to purchase. The annual event, now in
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I discovered the Foxfire series of books back in the 1970’s. Just recently I started reacquiring them last year to add to my Mountain Dreams Bookcase. If you haven’t seen these for yourself, go check it out… Foxfire 2: Ghost Stories, Spring Wild Plant Foods, Spinning and Weaving, Midwifing, Burial Customs, Corn Shuckin’s, Wagon Making and More Affairs of Plain Living
Keep readingThese rare and protected Showy Lady Slipper Orchids are found deep in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia. Video: Brian La Fountain
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What would the West Virginia State Fair be, each year, without all of the Virginians in attendance? Would you believe…A lot less crowded? But the crowds are one of the things that make state fairs fun… FAIRLEA, W. Va.— Every August, thousands of people flock to the State Fair of West Virginia, and many of them don’t even call the Mountain State their home.
Keep readingReading through my rss feed today I saw this article about a local food purveyor in West Virginia. The piece had some nice things to say about Flying W Farms… I’d heard about Flying W Farms in Burlington, West Virginia from my parents, who regularly bought butchered meat from them over the years. However, I’d never been to their store. This summer,
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