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The Blowing Rock
The historic village of Blowing Rock sits astride the Eastern
Continental Divide at a cool 4,000 foot elevation.
Blowing Rock is the only full service community on the Blue Ridge
Parkway and is centrally located to all the attractions.
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The Mitford Years
by Jan Karon
Buy It Here
A series of books based on the town of Blowing Rock. Welcome to
Mitford, North Carolina, the small mountain town at the center
of Jan Karon's bestselling novels about rector Father Tim and
the heartwarming cast of characters surrounding him. This set
includes paperback editions of the first four books in the series:
At Home in Mitford, A Light in the Window, These High, Green Hills, and Out to Canaan.
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THE BLOWING ROCK
It is said that a Chickasaw chieftain, fearful of a white man's
admiration
The Blowing Rock
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for his lovely daughter, journeyed far from the plains to bring
her to The Blowing Rock and the care of a squaw mother. One day
the maiden, daydreaming on the craggy cliff, spied a Cherokee
brave wandering in the wilderness far below and playfully shot
an arrow in his direction. The flirtation worked because soon
he appeared before her wigwam, courted her with songs of his land
and they became lovers, wandering the pathless woodlands and along
the crystal streams.
One day a strange reddening of the sky brought the brave and maiden
to The Blowing Rock. To him it was a sign of trouble commanding
his return to his tribe in the plains. With the maiden's entreaties
not to leave her, the brave, torn by conflict of duty and heart,
leaped from The Rock into the wilderness far below.
The grief-stricken maiden prayed daily to the Great Spirit until,
one evening with a reddening sky, a gust of wind blew her lover
back onto The Rock and into her arms. From that day a perpetual
wind has blown up onto The Rock from the valley below. For people
of other days, at least, this was explanation enough for The Blowing
Rock's mysterious winds causing even the snow to fall upside down.
Hours of Operation:
*December thru March....................9:00am - 5:00pm
Closed Christmas Eve & Day ...........9:00am - 6:00pm
April-Memorial Day Weekend** ......8:30am - 7:00pm
Memorial Day Weekend thru
Labor Day**..... ........................... 8:30am - 7:00pm
September, October...................... 9:00am - 6:00pm (Sun-Thurs),
Fri & Sat: 9:00am - 7:00 pm
November.....................................9:00am - 5:00pm
*Open weather permitting
[Official Site]
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A Mansion in the Mountains: The Story of Moses and Bertha Cone
and Their Blowing Rock Manor
This book tells the engrossing story of Moses and Bertha Cone,
builders of the stunning Flat Top Manor in Blowing Rock, North
Carolina. Order here.
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