Shenandoah National Park Superintendent Martha Bogle announced that facilities closed during the winter season will begin opening in March and will continue to open through the spring. Even though spring is just around the corner, park staff is continuing the hard work of clearing snow from the unprecedented 2010 winter season. March opening dates below [...]
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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... 
Today for lunch I joined a friend I've never met. We walked along a creek with no name under hemlocks in a valley I've never seen. We passed a barn I've only envisioned in painted light upon my screen. The sun I couldn't see glistened on grasses in the field to dry the dew I did not feel. I wasn't there, and yet I was, visiting with Fred on Goose Creek in the mountains of Floyd County.
I'll go there again tomorrow for lunch as I revisit a "Slow Road Home". Won't you come along? We'll visit Anns Falls, we'll sit a spell under the white pines, we'll wave at the neighbors from the front porch. We'll while away the time as we discuss the important issues of the day, the bumblebees at play, and the hawks upon the wing. We can discuss anything at all as we visit there on the creek with no name along that "Slow Road Home". |
The second annual SDAD will be held at the Blue Ridge Institute at Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia on the 17th and 18th of September 2010 Wendell Berry will be our guest speaker on Saturday afternoon in the auditorium on campus. Stay tuned to the web site for more details. Advance tickets will be available. $12.00 per day [...] Enter to win a The Classic Family Road Trip to Virginia from the Official Tourism Website of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Blue Ridge Parkway 75th Anniversary Sweepstakes, for your chance to win a seven-day / six-night vacation along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Included are airline tickets for four people and a hybrid rental car. Entrant must [...] BLUE GRASS, Va. There was something in the smoke, as Ivan Puffenbarger’s sugarhouse burned and the volunteer firefighters roared over the mountains trying to save it. In the ash and plastic fumes, there was a smell like molasses dripping on a stove burner. Seven hundred gallons of maple syrup was on fire. via The Pancake-Ready Paradise – [...] One week, you might learn about the nearly unpredictable weather raining down on Mount Rogers. The next, you could be face-to-tail with a salamander. Then come the trout, swishing through mountain streams like the Straight Branch on the outskirts of Damascus. All this – plus field trips to the marshy Well Fields Park of Saltville – could be [...] |
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