One Day in the Mountains: What Would You Do?

Posted in Outdoors & Travel on September 26th, 2010 by marklynn
One Day in the Mountains: What Would You Do?
“If you had only one day in the mountains, what would you do, what would be your perfect day?” Kelly Redford posed this question on the forum over at GoSmokies.com and received a tremendous response: “It would be Spring. The woods would have trillium growing all over the ground and birds would be close enough to identify. New green leaves would be sprouting and tiny spring flowers would be sprinkled through the grass. Read More »


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Listen Up-It’s Banjo Week

Posted in Music on September 18th, 2010 by marklynn
Listen Up-It’s Banjo Week
Hold onto your five string tuning pegs. The folks over at WAMU’s Bluegrass Country have declared September 18-24 Banjo Week. That means seven straight days of a’plingin’ and a’plangin’ with some of the best artists around. There’ll be classic cuts from old timer Snuffy Jenkins, gospel recordings from Don Reno & Red Smiley, a lesson from the virtuoso of banjo history Greg Adams, and lots more. Read More »


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Author Josh Weil: Writing from Heartbreak

Posted in Art & Lit on September 13th, 2010 by Mark Lynn Ferguson
Author Josh Weil: Writing from Heartbreak
In a Southwest Virginia cabin, Josh Weil spent weeks alone, not speaking to another person, leaving only to hike a ridge with a warm potato in his pocket, mostly hunched over, writing the three novellas that appear in his award winning book The New Valley. Here is how it begins: “It was the hay bales that did it. The men and women who knew Osby least, who nodded at him from passing trucks or said ‘Hey’ while scanning cans of Read More »


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Breathtaking Climbs with South Beyond 6000

Posted in Outdoors & Travel on September 6th, 2010 by marklynn
Breathtaking Climbs with South Beyond 6000
Up above 6000 feet, the oxygen can get mighty thin, but that hasn’t stopped more than 160 people from completing the South Beyond 6000 challenge. Conceived in 1968, SB6K challenges serious hikers (i.e. not me) to climb 40 peaks that exceed 6000 feet in the Southern Appalachians. These are daunting hikes. Fifteen of them are unmarked and untrailed. Read More »


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