Appalachian History

Black raspberry season!

Call them Rubus occidentalis if you’re of scientific bent; Blackcap if you’re not. Black raspberries are often wrongly called blackberries.

It is not money that is the root of all evil. It is idleness. Idleness leads to poverty, Idleness invites disease. Idleness breeds crime.

Linville Caverns were discovered by Henry E. Colton and his local guide, Dave Franklin, in 1822. In this piece he shares their wonder at it.

The Blue Ridge Parkway is the longest (469 miles), narrowest national park in the world and is the most visited unit in the US National Park system.

Jesse Vestal’s 1849 poem jug was the first piece acquired by William King Museum of Art as part of its Cultural Heritage Collection.

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