Blue Ridge Country magazine editor Cara Ellen Modisett grew up in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and was introduced to the magazine by her uncle, an attorney and photographer, when she was in college.
After graduating from James Madison University in 1998, she took an internship at Blue Ridge Country and joined the staff a few months later. Besides her work at BRC, she also reports for WVTF public radio and performs as a classical pianist.
Online, you can reach Cara through e mail, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and on Twitter, @brceditor. Offline, she lives in Roanoke, VA with her husband and their two cats.
Through the panes of glass, the mesh of screen, beyond a stand of trees, over a hill and next to the rustic timberframe and stone of the about-to-be-opened new lodge at Primland, I can see a tall silver tower, scaffolding wrapped around the observation windows below its round dome, which is starting to catch and reflect the sunlight in a subdued glow now that the rainclouds are thinning to blue sky.
I'm not sure which letter I didn't understand in "ATV" but found out early this afternoon.
I drove up U.S. 221 this morning from Roanoke to Floyd , then Route 8 up to the Blue Ridge Parkway , then south to Meadows of Dan, through a little town called Vest...
The first harbingers of fall: The students are coming back to school, packing cars and heading to Virginia Tech and Radford University and Roanoke College and Hollins, meeting roommates and buying textbooks. I miss being a student at this time of yea...
So a fun little element on our newly redesigned website is our POLL. We've just closed our first and put up a second (scroll down to bottom of splash page to tell us what you love most about summer in the mountains). For our first poll, we had more th...
Just a short blog to mention my lunch break. I met my mother at the end of the morning, just after interviewing Dr. Ed Ayers, president of University of Richmond and author of "In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863" (m...
I'm back in the Majestic for today's panels and workshops; they started a little late this morning so am juggling interview times. Right now sitting in on a presentation on the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Ground .
It was a little odd seeing Abraham Lincoln walk into the theater last night. Dressed in a tuxedo, he settled into a seat close to the front and toward 8:00 he opened the first portion of the evening's program, a presentation of Civil War photography ...
