Above: Jan Karon gathers with friends as staff at The Mitford Museum prepare for grand opening festivities, which will include a concert, a Mitford stage play, lectures, and other special events. Tickets, available through the HUB Station Arts Center and also via Tix, will go on sale August 2, 2021. The Mitford Museum is located at 145 Cedar Valley Road in Hudson, North Carolina.
Text Melissa Lester
Photography Bert Blackburn
To see more of The Mitford Museum and read an essay by Writer-in-Residence Jan Karon, see “The Eternal Adventure” in the September 2021 issue, available on newsstands and at Victoriamag.com.




We are going to Lake Lure next week.
Could we come and visit earlier than October?
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!!! franki