Blue Ridge Country November/December 2022 - 5

INSIDE THE MAGAZINE
FROM THE EDITOR
CONTRIBUTORS
Column Stars Gain One
T
he most treasured magazines, to my read, become
a sort of friend in your hands, and have
one important thing in common in reaching that
status: an array of every-issue writers and topics that
touch an interest area, a nerve or the heart.
This magazine has been blessed, since it earliest issues
in the late 1980s, with a bounty of talented, dedicated
and insightful columnists.
This issue carries only the latest editions of their onKURT
RHEINHEIMER
going collective contribution to a publication that is deeply grateful to both them
and to those of you who read their work each time out.
Molly Dugger Brennan's writing kinship to the late Erma Bombeck has been noted
by more than one reader, as Molly's love of family, dogs, food and fun combine
to give us a knowing smile each read.
Nancy Henderson's careful research and writing have educated us on creatures
large, small, flighty and barely moving for decades now.
The walks that Leonard Adkins brings us have shrunk slightly in distance over the
years but always keep an eye out for things natural, objects unusual and turns no
one else would take. What else to expect from a five-time Appalachian Trail thruhiker
and author of countless books on hikes, walks and nature.
Joan Vannorsdall-she of two fine novels and many of the magazine's most popular
history pieces-deploys her natural curiosity, love of place and background as a
county supervisor to have us fall in love with a new town every issue.
Fred and Jill Sauceman (in this issue their usual Flavors column is rested as they
deliver a full feature of food delights) bring us an appreciation of all things culinary
where the tastes are not just of the delicious, but also of the history, the nuances
and of the family struggles and triumphs behind those unique mountain tastes.
Ginny Neil's warm, playful artworks assure that her musings on things growing
and green carry much of the tone of the voice we don't get to hear as she sings in
the garden, in the forest and beyond.
With this issue we begin a new column by another contributor whose work has
graced our pages for decades. Bruce Ingram, long-time devoted husband and over
recent years a granddad, brings his how-lucky-can-one-guy-be perspective to " Gifts
of the Land, " which muses on those blessings in the context of another-his appreciation
of and gratitude for living much of his life as his ancestors did, and thus
assuring that his family is out upon that land and garnering from it both the natural
bounty and the human lessons it offers.
Our thanks to writers, our thanks to readers.
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Nan K. Chase
(Old " Jewish Church " )
After 40 years living
in western North
Carolina, history buff
Nan K. Chase moved
to southwest Virginia
about five years ago,
where she loves exploring the riches
of the nearby New River Trail State
Park. She is the author of " Asheville:
A History " and " Lost Restaurants of
Asheville. " Her Instagram feed about
the town of Fries, Virginia, is
@newriverbeautyspot.
su clausonWicker
(Dick
Pointer) is a
contributing editor
and author of " West
Virginia Off the Beaten
Path, " " Scenic Routes & Byways West
Virginia " and " Inn-to-Inn Walking
Guide for the Virginias. " She cowrote
a history of Blacksburg's Lyric
Theatre. An award-winning regional
writer, she penned her first Blue
Ridge Country story in 1988.
angela minor
(14 Holiday Towns)
is a contributing
editor and writer
of travel and nature
articles for regional and
national publications. She's
the " Park Watch " Beat Writer for
10,000 Birds; and she created and
authors the Bird Watcher's Digest
state park birding series.
Ryan Rice
(Foxes) is a semiprofessional
drone
pilot and
photographer whose
photos have been
featured several times in
Blue Ridge Country. He
spends most of his free time hiking
and traveling around Northeast
Tennessee searching for wildlife and
beautiful landscapes. He has become
a local expert on nesting bald eagles.
His photography and research have
been featured in multiple publications
and he has been a guest speaker for
local bird clubs.
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