"Remember the days when you were snuggled safe in your mother's lap as she read a poem or sang a song? Remember the poem you memorized for that school program,

Located in the area where North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee meet, Pond Mountain rises to over 4,000 feet. In its valley it holds the Pond Mountain communit

When it first appeared in Erma Bombeck's Mother's Day column in 1974, When God Created Mothers was an instant success, clipped from newspapers, tucked into purs