Seeing the Brown Mountain Lights
A lifelong search resolves this mountain mystery — or not
"I wrote a long reported article on my ongoing novelistic interests: the western NC mountains, the created world, and man's place among gigantic planetary processes. in "The Local Enquirer," Samuel Schaefer has launched a promising new long-form e-magazine, and I'm glad for his help in completing this story!"
Burke County — The blue was the first Appalachian feature I saw as I drove west through Hickory, the last town in the foothills. The oaks of the mountain forests release the gas isoprene, which the sun strikes as blue light waves to render the ridges in their famed color. They looked blue from a distance an…
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