Blowing Rock was the filming location for the movies, "The
Green Mile" and "The Friends of Eddie Coyle"
Well-known residents in Blowing Rock have included:
Jan Karon, writer
Tom Robbins, author
Blowing Rock takes its name from a nearby cliff overlooking
John’s River Gorge, where updrafts can cause lightweight
objects to be blown upwards rather than down; this effect,
which earned Blowing Rock a mention in Ripley’s Believe
It or Not! as the only place "Where Snow Falls Upside
Down," also inspired the Native American legend of
a Cherokee brave who, rather than be forcibly separated
from his Chickasaw lover, leapt off the cliff, only to be
blown back into the arms of his sweetheart.
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