AVI recently mentioned wanting to visit Swiss-influenced villages . Helen isn't that, but it does attempt a version of Bavaria.  The tow...

Last week I rode to Tennessee; this week I rode down into Georgia, and visited the mountain town of Dahlonega. It is the home of Georgia...

A new album of newly released Waylon Jennings songs is out today. His son Scooter found them in old tapes from the 70s, which is when his b...

It’s open from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Cherokee Reservation to Mount Mitchell now. Still some work to do beyond that...

I’m working from the Blue Ridge Parkway today, and I ran across this fine fellow going about his day. 

The Firearms Policy Coalition has won some important legal victories lately. The courts are limiting those victories to actual members of F...

Today's short chapter treats a small question . The kinds of friendship may perhaps be cleared up if we first come to know the object o...

This is the bridge my son and I built this summer. It’s got twin pressure-treated 6x6 beams as the undercarriage, set in stone and concrete ...

We are about seventy percent through the EN at this point. Close to twenty percent of the book is on the inquiry into friendship, which we a...

CDR Salamander was one of the original Milbloggers. He remains one of the best and clearest thinkers on naval and national policy. Today...

These last two chapters close out the long Book VII , one of the more technical books of the EN. 13 But further (E) it is agreed that pain i...

On J6,  were pipe bombs placed  outside DNC and RNC party HQs ? The documents obtained by Just the News show that both bombs — one planted a...

Sadly it appears that the SECDEF (SECWAR?) is not planning mass firings at today's in-person meeting of much of the top military leaders...

Now that the common claims of the Wise are on the table , we can begin the analysis.  These are pretty much the things that are said. That i...

This is actually perfectly excusable if, and only if, most of those "leaders" won't be immediately after the meeting. Otherwis...

There is a surprising beginning to this short chapter . The study of pleasure and pain belongs to the province of the political philosopher ...

Saw baby elk near this bull. They have white spots like a fawn. Lots of energy for a big creature like an elk. Newfound Gap. The Little Rive...

I always try to get a short video of this for Tex. 

I trust you have all seen a moonshine still before. The Cherokee Stickball exhibition was at this year's Mountain Heritage Day . This b...

I have watched them play this for years, and I still have no idea what the rules are. Some have one stick and some have two, and frequently ...