JANUARY 15, 2009 ISSUE
Southern Living Readers Make Blowing Rock a Small Town Favorite
Readers of Southern Living magazine have named Blowing Rock a “Best Small Town.”After honoring Blowing Rock with Reader’s Choice Awards in the Favorite Mountain Destination category for three consecutive years, Southern Living readers had new choices to make this time around. The magazine retired the Favorite Mountain Destination category in favor of Best Small Town, and Blowing Rock still came out a winner, in spite of being thrown into a category with literally hundreds of competitors.
Blowing Rock Tourism Development Authority Executive Director Tracy Brown was justifiably proud that the town found itself near the top of the Southern Living list for the fourth consecutive year. “After establishing ourselves as a premier mountain destination, we’re now ‘climbing the charts’ in the Best Small Town category. Nearly 3,000,000 Southern Living readers in 17 Southeastern states and the District of Columbia think we’re a special place, and we couldn’t ask for a better endorsement,” Brown said.
Finishing ahead of Blowing Rock in the Best Small Town category were Beaufort, S.C., Fairhope, Ala. and Fredericksburg, Texas. In recognition of the achievement, the Southern Living Readers’ Choice Award logo can be used on all Blowing Rock marketing materials for the next year.
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