Archived photos:
Saved from previous editions of the website.
Amber and Holly,
Homecoming Queen and Miss Holston
High School, get ready to take part in the December 2
Christmas Parade. To see other photos click
here.
Bike riders descend
the Creeper Trail near Taylor's Valley.
After a brief
summer rain, a rainbow arches over Laurel Avenue, the main street
of Damascus.
As summer gets underway, Emily at In the Country
prepares ice cream
for bikers who have made the 17-mile trip from Whitetop.
Traildog
needs a home. Thru-hiker Indiana found Traildog at the Abingdon
Gap shelter.
(Newsflash: happy ending. Traildog's owner picked
her up.)
The hikers
are here! Present and past thru-hikers enjoy some trail magic
at Blue Blaze. Left to right by trail name:
Pogue, Hatteras Jack, Firefly, Applesauce, Sneaky (97), Silver Streak,
Trace (03), Cruze, One-Third (03),
and Waterboy (99). In the coming weeks hundreds of hikers will walk
through town on the Appalachian Trail,
many on a quest to hike the entire 2,175 miles of the trail, which
runs from Georgia to Maine.
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Signs of Spring: Kayakers
on Laurel Creek.
Getting
ready for spring: Mont and John (left photo) and Bill (right
photo) work on two of the
approximately 900 rental bicycles at the seven bike shops in or near
Damascus.
Firemen
of the Year:
Wade
Horn (above) and Bobby Smith (right)
recently received Fireman of the Year awards
at a banquet for the
Damascus Volunteer Fire Department.
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Christmas
Parade Photos
from December, 2005
Christmas
presents get ready to hike in the
December 3 Christmas Parade.
Downtown Damascus,
early November.
Laurel Avenue looking toward Cuckoo.
Damascus wins first Little League state title.
(Click on the photo for a larger picture.)
A family from Eden, NC, takes a count of dogs and children after a
17-mile downhill ride
Chad and Lizzie, from Richmond, Virginia, left
Oregon on May 23 2005
and in early August came through Damascus on the Trans-America Bike
Trail
on their way to the Carolina Outer Banks.
See more visitors on "The great
people who visit us."
