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The Last Days of Doughton Park

August 18, 2014 · by David Fleming | in inquiring, mapping, traveling | 36 Comments

For more than forty years now, my family has vacationed in a small cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, near the tiny village of Laurel Springs. We built the cabin in the early 1970s, though we began visiting the area long before that. My father first came with my mother and sister in […]

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