Stuart Ferguson - Shakespeare and Company

Cynthia Strain’s evocative new book captures a Highlands that’s quickly slipping into myth and legend.

A dizzying array of incidents and characters swirled around the singular Mr. Armistead Burt.

A marvelous summer time idyll, Refuge retains its charm through the years.

The curiously incompetent James Grant’s victorious Battle of Echoe was never about glory, but it ended with despair and dishonor.

Our friend Katherine Willoughby enriched the lives of everyone she encountered in her peripatetic life.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s bout of bronchiectasis led to his greatest novel and also, inevitably, to Stuart’s grandmother and the stunning woman who would become the eternal face of Irish beauty.

Tony Chambers’ pair of novels set on the outskirts of “High Glen” recall a gentle time on the Plateau.

The larger-than-life Wade Hampton III made his mark on history and, of course, Cashiers.

A new volume explores George Masa’s rugged travels through the wild spaces of Western North Carolina. You can learn more at the September 8 Zahner Lecture Series, set for 6:00 P.M. at the Highlands Nature Center.