An N&W Railway caboose sits at the New River Trail southern trailhead (Galax) Stepping onto the New River Trail today, I can’t help but feel like I’m walki…

John Chiswell, born ca. 1710, was a prominent figure in colonial Virginia Along a freeway passage where traffic travels north on I-81 while simultaneously goin…

One of the Brown Mountain Lights captured on film Gazing upon the star-laden sky on a clear night, one expects tranquility. But an anomaly disrupts the sky’s…

An American Chestnut Tree in Bloom Image: Bruce Marlin, Wikimedia When European settlers came to the Blue Ridge Mountains, one of every four trees in the fores…