FloydFest, the multi-genre music and arts festival held along the beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway in Floyd, Virginia, eXploded with fun and eXcitement this year as it celebrated its 10th anniversary and witnessed record breaking sales. The event, which is put together by local promotion company, Across-the-Way Productions, boasted premier performances by its best of a […]
Music On The Mountaintop Announces Second Round Of Performers
7 Walkers Featuring Bill Kreutzmann and Papa Mali, Infamous Stringdusters, Possum Jenkins, Simplified, Major Sevens, Strange Lady, and Great Funktier Added to Performer Lineup.Boone, North Carolina – Music On the Mountaintop has confirmed the second round of artists slated for the fourth annual two-day music festival outside of Boone, North Carolina this August 26-27, 2011. […]
FONSI Issued for Progress Energy Carolinas Right-of-Way Permit
(Asheville, NC) The National Park Service (NPS) Southeast Regional Director has approved the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the right-of-way permit (ROW) for a New Asheville – Enka 115kv West Line Crossing of the Blue Ridge Parkway Corridor in Buncombe County, NC. The FONSI has determined that there will be no significant environmental […]
Parkway Seeks Input For Roanoke Valley/ Blue Ridge Parkway Trail Plan
(Asheville)—The Blue Ridge Parkway (Parkway) is seeking public input, through September 12, 2011, on an Environmental Assessment (EA) for a trail plan for the Roanoke Valley section of the Parkway. The purpose of this EA is to describe the affected environment and analyze potential impacts associated with a no action alternative and two action alternatives. […]
Grandfather Mountain Partners In Providing “New Opportunity” For Women In Appalachia
The Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation recently partnered with the New Opportunity School for Women at Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk. Jennie Abbott, an intern from the program, shadowed the Mountain’s naturalists for two weeks this summer. Abbott, a self-proclaimed “nature fanatic” from Cullowhee, N.C., completed her internship with Grandfather Mountain’s Naturalists, and gained experience in […]
