Category: History & Stories
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Styles of Wine: An Education with Alex Lopez

We first noticed Alex Lopez on IG through his entertaining and educational posts about wine. (You can see…

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Wheels Down – East Tennessee: An Update Story

Photos provided by Travis Ervin   Commitment is a sentence, not a word. It’s a notion tacked near…

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Heavy Metal Rulez! – Cooking With Cast Iron

  I’m always looking for a way to get The South on my shoulders and I haven’t compressed…

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Teach From DeHart: Matt DeHart Wins Emerging Teacher of the Year Award

He met me at the principal’s office by the school’s entrance. Matt DeHart, a fifth grade teacher at…

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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 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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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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