Archive for June 2010
Across AV Shorts
A Quilted Memorial The Floating Lab Collective, an arts collective based out of Washington, D.C., is calling for submissions of quilt patches to commemorate mountains lost to mountaintop removal. The patch may be any size or shape, but they must have the name of the memorialized mountain on them. Submissions are due by July 1.…
Read MoreGrowing Community Agriculture
Story by Maureen Halsema A community vision, a team of volunteers and generous donations will transform a 90-year-old school into the new Agricultural Development Center for Polk County, N.C. Mill Springs School is a 40,000 square foot building that rests on six acres of pristine, viable farmland, and is the future site of the County…
Read MoreGET Going–Trekking the Great Eastern Trail
Story by Derek Speranza It is only fitting that poet Robert Frost took “the road less traveled by” in his poetry collection entitled Mountain Interval – and now long distance hikers everywhere have a new opportunity to do exactly that. The Great Eastern Trail is to be a 2,000-mile alternative to the well-worn Appalachian Trail,…
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