Field Notes

Before it was a declared a State Park in 1974, Panola was privately owned by John Yarbrough, a local motor man who fell in love with the mountain.  It’s hard […]

Rock quarrying seems to not have been the only source of explosions at Arabia Mountain… Many sites around the Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area have been used for more than […]

The illusive red succulent returns this spring with its white flowery bloom. What do we know about it and why is it so rare? Each spring in the Heritage Area, […]

Check out this photo Field Note by 2 James Madison University students who spent the week of March 16, 2025 volunteering at the Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area. Spring break […]

A Junior Angler Coordinator for the Arabia Alliance, Evonne Blythers talks about her upbringing in rural Indiana, the Junior Ranger Angler Program, and her love of historic bridge builder Horace King! […]

On the Georgia author’s 100th birthday, we look at how Flannery O’Connor discovered the Monastery, and how some of her famous peacocks wound up there. March 25th this year marks […]

The Arabia Alliance’s Assistant Executive Director and resident Historian Brigette Jones reflects on the significance of Black History Month on the eve of the United States’ 250th. National Heritage Areas […]

Born and raised in neighboring Ellenwood, Georgia, Moore spent much of his childhood outdoors. With an insatiable passion for nature, he soon realized that this was something he would be […]

Anderson is the last living member of the Bruce Street School graduating class of 1950 and her grandmother Frances Branham was a third-grade teacher at the school.  At 90, Mae […]

A revered landscape architect who designed the children’s garden in the White House, Alexander was also a passionate preservationist who convinced others to protect local green spaces Anyone who’s visited […]

The popular Arabia Mountain ranger and trail guide was a renaissance man who was also a pastor, educator, college president and model train enthusiast. The Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area […]

Visitors to the Monastery of the Holy Spirit (MoHS) may not know the name Moses Green, but his work abounds throughout the Monastery grounds. If you see brick on brick, […]