There are some people whose names feel like home. You hear them and something inside you settles, the way your shoulders drop when you finally sit down on a familiar porch after a long day. […]
Mountain Dew began as a small town idea in Marion, mixed by folks who never imagined their citrus experiment would become one of the most famous sodas in the world. […]
There are some buildings that disappear from a town and leave nothing but a bare patch of ground. And then there are others that linger long after the bricks are gone, like a ghost that […]
Smyth County is a place where the land likes to surprise you, offering odd little truths that make the mountains feel wonderfully mischievous. […]
Cookin’ Cheap proved good company matters more than perfect cooking, turning a tiny Roanoke kitchen into one of television’s most honest, joyful places. […]
It’s funny how a seventy‑plus‑year‑old drink can suddenly find itself back in the spotlight, but that’s exactly what happened when Dr. Enuf rolled out its new grape flavor. One photo of that bright purple bottle […]
News clipping from Bristol Herald Courier newspaper reporting the story of the Roses department store fire in April 1989. […]
If you drive far enough down the backroads of Southwest Virginia, past the rolling pastureland and the quiet hollers where the mountains fold in on themselves, you’ll find a place called Plasterco. It is small […]
There are places in every small town that do more than sit on the map. They settle into the memory. In Chilhowie, one of those places has always been the Rainbow Motel and Restaurant. Long […]
There are plenty of odd chapters in Southern pop culture, but few are as wonderfully strange as the rise and fall of Billy Beer. It arrived in 1977 with all the subtlety of a marching […]
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