Highcountry Almanac
A quarterly record of land, craft, and Southern highland life.
The Stone That Stayed
A swimmer cuts through the green water of Mead's Quarry, leaving a clean wake across twenty-five acres of an ancient cut that sinks eighty feet to a floor of solid...
The Stone That Stayed
The Stone That Stayed
The Holding House
The midday sun over the Tellico Plains valley does not invite movement. By three in the afternoon in mid-July, the humidity has settled into the bottomland along the river like...
The Holding House
The Holding House
The Climb Out of Tellico Plains
The asphalt begins where the houses stop, just past the edge of Tellico Plains. In the valley, the July air holds the heavy, river-bottom heat of East Tennessee—a thick, wet...
The Climb Out of Tellico Plains
The Climb Out of Tellico Plains
The Stone That Stayed
A swimmer cuts through the green water of Mead's Quarry, leaving a clean wake across twenty-five acres of an ancient cut that sinks eighty feet to a floor of solid...
The Stone That Stayed
The Stone That Stayed
The Holding House
The midday sun over the Tellico Plains valley does not invite movement. By three in the afternoon in mid-July, the humidity has settled into the bottomland along the river like...
The Holding House
The Holding House
The Climb Out of Tellico Plains
The asphalt begins where the houses stop, just past the edge of Tellico Plains. In the valley, the July air holds the heavy, river-bottom heat of East Tennessee—a thick, wet...
