Some believe Rafael Guastavino never truly left the Basilica he built, a masterpiece in life and possibly his haunt in death.
How George Masa’s lens, maps, and mountain hikes helped create the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and shape the Appalachian Trail.
Waynesville’s Green Hill Cemetery is home to a long-running legend that auto dealer Curtis G. Logan was buried in his car.
One of the most accessible hikes on the Blue Ridge Parkway is the Rattlesnake Lodge Trail, a quick mountain ascent over rocks and switchbacks on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail.
A North Carolina composer who brought Appalachian folk music to the concert stage rests beneath a headstone engraved with the notes of his lifelong song.
The Cherokee legend of Spearfinger, a witch born of stone and shadow, endures as one of Appalachia’s oldest and most haunting stories.
A handmade stone marker in Waynesville’s Green Hill Cemetery tells the story of a wife and mother whose 1935 grave reflects the humble artistry of mountain families.
An Asheville area hillside, a century-old chapel, and a ghost story that refuses to fade.
A young soldier from Waynesville stood at the edge of war, then fate intervened. Leon Love’s story, carved in stone atop Dix Hill, reminds us how a single choice can change a life.
CULLOWHEE, N.C. — Every campus has that one building. The one everyone swears is […]