Summer green highlights the statue of the Wood Booger that stands next to the Flag Rock Overlook just south of Norton, Virginia. Known locally as the Wood Booger, the city erected the statue and the Norton City Council designated the Flag Rock Recreation Area as a "Wood Booger Sanctuary" folliwing a visit by Animal Planet's "Finding Bigfoot" TV show. In 2011, the show spent a week in southwest Virginia that features scenes from High Knob, as well as Washington County, Damascus, and Saltville. In other parts of the country, this elusive creature is know by other names, such as: Sasquatch, Yeti, and Bigfoot.
Two Bristol, Virginia icons at twilight on a late winter evening. The Birthplace of Country Music museum documents and celebrates the first country music recording session in 1927 .. now know as the "Bristol Sessions". The Bristol Hotel, built in 1925 as an office building, now houses a 65 room boutique hotel. Complete with a restaurant and rooftop bar, this chic Hotel offers views of the Appalachian mountains and the twin cities of Bristol Virginia and Tennessee.
The Burger Bar, a Bristol, a southwest Virginia iconic restaurant since 1942. Legend has it that this is the restaurant that Hank William's chauffeur stopped at on his last ride to get a bite to eat. Hank was being driven from Knoxville, Tennessee to Canton, Ohio for a show that next night. Charles Carr, William's chauffeur ask Hank if he wanted anything to eat, and Hank replied "no", which is the last word he ever spoke. Charles discovered Hank had died several hours later when he stopped in Oak HIll, West Virginia.
