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What began in 1943 as a thank-you gesture from the merchants of Kingsport to their customers in southwestern Virginia and eastern Kentucky has become as traditional as giblet gravy and cranberry salad at the Thanksgiving meal.

Every family, every town or region, and sometimes an entire culture has its own holiday traditions that run like a river through the years and generations—always the same, always slightly different.

More than gift shopping, endless baking, or decorating the house to perfection, the true meaning of the holidays comes from within each of us.

A unique, natural refuge for retired zoo and circus elephants.

The real places, the places with a sense of self, are holding their own against a tide of malls and franchises—often deliberately, often by fortune.

Drive-in theaters a thing of the past? Tell that to Tim Thompson, and Richard Boaz, and the Magocs family, and?