For many of my contemporaries in the early Seventies and Eighties, an invitation to stay with Harry Calvert and his parents, Major Eddy and Mrs Calvert, was a first introduction to the splendours of a Highland estate. ... We stopped and ate our piece among boulders covered in vivid yellow lichen, watched by a grey hen silhouetted against the skyline. Fasnakyle is a hind forest and I asked Billy whether he thought the long, cold spring, dry summer and warm backend would ...
The loss of these early hotels still distresses many people in a town that prides itself on valuing preservation and the arts. These interests are clearly illustrated in the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum, a 21000-square-foot .... He reaches out and pushes himself along the lichen-mottled surface. Suddenly, he stops. There's a crack in the stone. A small fern has found unlikely footing and made a home, shooting forth with graceful curves and a formidable life force. ...
