Tall Tale Writing Contest: How Crow Got to be So Clever: The deadline for the Friends of Tryon Creek’s Tall Tale Writing Contest is Saturday, March 17th. Open to children from Kindergarten through 5th ...

Whether or not it can be verified, there are those who claim to have seen them, while others simply chronicle the traces of their existence, both of which become the stuff of legend and lore. Consider ...

The following is part of KRCC's 'Peak Past' essay series. There’s a tall, tall turtle in the Garden of the Gods, and I’d like to tell you a story about it. But first, we should recognize that American ...

While the origins of many words and expressions are often easy to pin down, others are shrouded in a blanket of vagaries. Often the best that can be determined by etymologists is when the word or ...