Category: History & Stories
Nick Ring

Dicey Langston: A TR Pioneer & Hero

Dicey Langston. Have you heard her name? If you don’t recognize her name yet, we plan to change…

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Doodles make a difference

Doodles Making a Difference

If you don’t have a Goldendoodle in your own home, you surely know someone who does. This popular…

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Cory Godbey

Indie Craft Parade Artist Highlight: An Evening with Cory Godbey

For an entire decade, the Indie Craft Parade has been an event celebrating and supporting local and regional…

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An Old Sweet Song: Memories

Last week our friend Kay Owen shared a memory of hers about small towns and beautiful flowers and…

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Sunflowers

Towns, Flowers & Sweet Memories

People sometimes have experiences that immediately trigger a memory of something belonging to their past. The smell of…

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Shift Your Fire

Shift Your Fire: Bow Drilling

Every morning I step into our office, I fire up a candle or piece of incense. A lot…

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Spring Park Inn

The Spring Park Inn – Its History & Future

At the beginning of 2021, Travelers Rest was given perhaps one of its greatest gifts ever, and while…

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yucca

Wild TR: Meet Your Neighbor! (It’s a Yucca!)

Yucca filamentosa Spanish bayonet, Adam’s Needle Meet your neighbor!     Walking down a trail in these mountains…

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Tom Taylor

Echo Valley Amusement Park: A Look Back

Summer road trips, roadside attractions, and the great goal of a lot of kids, the amusement park, have…

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Swamp Pink or Helonias Bullata

Wild TR: Sacred Spaces

The light penetrating through the stained glass canopy fell through in rays, illuminating my way. A soft whisper…

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Bobby Bradley

Wild TR: Mountain Magic

We all know there is magic in these mountains. It comes in many forms: the song of the…

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7 Blue Ridge Parkway

Blessings in a Pandemic: A Reader Shares Her Silver Linings

The best part of our job at Travelers Rest Here has always been meeting our readers. Without you,…

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