Tag: southeast
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West Virginia Summer: A fleeting evening in Photos
I’m not so sure what’s special about these photos on their own. What I am sure about is that, together, they capture the essence of a late West Virginia summer. Something that starts with plucking the embellishments for dinner from the garden. That ends with the sky on fire. But not until after its softly…
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The Southeast’s Protected Cave Network
I know a thing or two about caves growing up in southern West Virginia. We used to walk high between the river bank and rock ledges when we played in the woods growing up, spelunking for coal fossils. Any trip to any good state park included some nice rocks to squeeze between or climb up.…
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Visiting Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon”
Down in the southwest corner of Georgia near the Alabama state line, on Canyon Road in a little town called Lumpkin, sits one of Georgia’s Seven Natural Wonders: Providence Canyon. The canyon has gained popular reference as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon” and it certainly bares resemblance. Instead of spending years being cut out by the…
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Hank Williams: The String Between West Virginia and Alabama
I was poking around a graveyard at 7 a.m. on a weekday morning in Montgomery, Alabama when I sat down beside Hank Williams and wrote: “I wonder if I looked confident or lost–maybe just thoughtful. It’s hard to look lost as a woman wearing cowboy boots.” So, Hank, I’m thoroughly enjoying this peanut butter and…
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Alabama’s Best Kept Secret
“What is this place?” “The town of Spectre. Best kept secret in Alabama!” And best kept it is. Spectre is a fictional town that Edward Bloom stumbles into early in Tim Burton’s film ‘Big Fish’ (2003). The film was an adaptation of the book with the same name by Birmingham-born Daniel Wallace and is an…
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Finding Peace in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge
Every year around my birthday I always like to treat myself to a lesson; sometimes that lesson is self-care and culture immersion on a beach in Mexico or Spain, sometimes it’s something far deeper. Disconnecting in the Blue Ridge is something far deeper. There is a lesson in testing your strength, and there is a…
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The South’s Curiosities [Museum of Wonder]
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The South is a curious place — partly people, partly environment, partly history. Butch’s Museum of Wonder might be one of the most curious manifestations of the Southern experience. He’s been referred to as the ‘Father of Intertwanglism’, which I’d never heard of until discovering his artwork; and I find it wildly relatable to anyone who has ever…
Sara L. Cottle 