Chattooga Quarterly
Fall, 2003
Halloween Brew
Director's Page
I have spent many sleepless nights wondering how we are going to deal with the relentless anti-environmental policies of this new administration. Let’s face it, our worst nightmares have come true, what with big greedy corporations unleashed to exploit the environment, a resurrected “timber beast” poised to run wild again in the national forests, and with crippled, under funded watchdog agencies and nonprofits in total disarray and confusion standing idly by, we are up the creek. One need only gaze into the cold calculating eyes of the likes of Dick Cheney our shadowy V. P., or the “Darth Vader” Undersecretary of Agriculture, Mark Rey, a former timber industry lobbyist who now controls the Forest Service, to understand the challenge we face. I’m afraid it’s time for some new tactics. Read more.
Booger Dance
Darkness blankets a chilly fall Southern Appalachian night in Big Cove, NC. Tucked away in a quiet hollow lies a small handmade house. It was built in a single day. Not because it was shoddily thrown together or because corners were cut. But because that’s what good neighbors do for each other. They give freely. When cold is setting in and a family needs shelter, they all do their part. Read more.
The Legend of Mary Jeff
With Halloween approaching, I began to think about ghost stories I have heard over the years. I wondered if there were any local ghost stories, tales involving the watershed area. So, on a Saturday morning when I happened to be in Clayton, I decided to stop in at the historical society, to see what information they might have on hand about local hauntings. Read More.
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