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The Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership and North Carolina Arts Council have partnered to launch a new initiative, the Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina, to promote the rich traditional music heritage in 29 counties in Western North Carolina.
The award recognizes works that best illuminates the challenges, personalities and unique qualities of the Appalachian South.
“Comic Stripped: A Revealing Look at Southern Stereotypes in Cartoons,” a new exhibition on display at Western Carolina University’s Mountain H ...
The angles of this barn -- used now to dry tobacco -- caught reader Melinda Young Stuart's eye after a recent snowfall. "Any day now," she writes of t ...
The Carolina Charter of 1663 was a gift of land from England's King Charles II to eight friends who had helped him regain the throne.
Based on the belief that an educated membership helps the Cherokee nation protect its sovereignty, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians pays college tuition and more for any member with the grades and desire for a post-secondary education.
A Knoxville, Tenn.-based group has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court to overturn the Great Smoky Mountains National Park overnight backcountry user fee that went into effect on Feb. 13.
In tribute to Black History Month and the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Mountain Gateway Museum, in cooperation with the McDowell County Public Library, will present a lecture on the role that slaves played in achievin ...
The last of a two-part series on the the new Great Smoky Mountains National Park's new backcountry user fee that went into effect on Wednesday. Some view the fee as a way to help preserve or enhance the park's current use and future. But so ...
Part one of a two-part report on a new fee -- which goes into effect today -- charged by the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and some reasons for why it is garnering so much attention and opposition.
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