Tree of Many Feathers: An Old Blog

  • Wild Water: Cold Spring, Star Tannery, VA

    Date of Visit: June 16, 2023 8.1 miles east of Wardensville is an Artesian spring that the locals refer to as “Cold Spring.” You will find it on the south side of Wardensville Pike (the road all outsiders, like me, tend to refer to as “48/55”–our primary reference being highway signs and maps). The spring…

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  • Finding Lost River

    From Wikipedia: “The Lost River is a 31.1-mile-long (50.1 km)[2] river in the Appalachian Mountains of Hardy County in West Virginia‘s Eastern Panhandle region. The Lost River is geologically the same river as the Cacapon River: It flows into an underground channel northeast of McCauley along West Virginia Route 259 at “the Sinks” and reappears near…

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  • The good folks at the Hill Center asked me to write a blog post for them I was pleased to oblige. They were so grateful they also posted an ENORMOUS photo of my face that would terrify anyone out of their mind. Woof! See the site that will make you cry here, where you can…

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