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ANDY VINSON
ABOUT THIS STORY
This feature makes its way through three overlapping modes of storytelling. Each genre corresponds to an itinerary for a real trip to
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consider for 2019. The timing of the itineraries was determined by when limited-time events have been scheduled, but the majority
of stops are year-round destinations that you can visit whenever you like. So please, think of these trips as sources of inspiration, not
prescriptions. For contact info on all venues and stops as well as basic itinerary maps, please go to blueridgecountry.com/travel19.
By GRANT CURRIN
ABOVE: Kieran Hedben (Four Tet) and Mats
Gustafsson collaborated for a unique 2018
performance at Knoxville's Big Ears Festival.
FACING PAGE TOP LEFT: The Foxfire
Chapel, in Mountain City, Georgia, keeps shape
note singing alive.
FACING PAGE TOP RIGHT: The Inn at
Forest Oaks provides cozy lodging in Natural
Bridge, Virginia.
FACING PAGE LOWER: Lewisburg, West
Virginia's hostelries include the welcoming
Maison Marcel.
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his year's travel guide takes an eclectic,
multi-faceted and multi-state approach
to the concept of "story." The following
pages include tales told around campfires,
stories sung in song, novels and poems
printed in books, and plots acted out on
stage. No matter how they're told, these
stories help us understand how we got
where we are, and they help us imagine
what our lives and communities might
become.
We begin in February with drama. The
first stop is in Staunton, Virginia, at the
world's only re-creation of Shakespeare's
indoor theatre. The rest of the story outlines a four-night, 600-mile trip through
Virginia, North and South Carolina, and
into Tennessee that describes how to see
four very different plays by four of the
Blue Ridge region's most distinguished
professional theatre companies.
The second itinerary, set in March,
charts a path through the region's musical heritage and into its future. Travelers
will encounter venues and organizations
that are breathing new life into the Appalachian musical tradition on a seven-day
journey that meanders through heritage
music sites in West Virginia and Virginia
and ends up at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee.
The final itinerary shifts our attention
to the ground beneath our feet as we embark on a trail that explores folklore in the
Blue Ridge Mountains. This itinerary is all
about the stories of the mountains-tales
both true and tall. Set at the end of September and beginning of October, this trip
includes Cherokee tales, visits to archives
packed with rare oral histories, and three
days at the internationally renowned National Storytelling Festival.
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