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August 2012

The man and the craft. This photo of Gary Powers was taken in 1963, three years after his capture and soon after he began his association with Lockhead, as a test pilot for the U2 aircraft he'd flown over Russia.

Francis Gary Powers: The Virginia Boy Who Spied On Russia And Came Home To Tell About It

Summer, 1943 Princeton, W.Va. "I left my heart up there, Pap, and I'm goin' back to get it," 14-year-old Francis Gary Powers told his father, Oliver, after his first plane ride - in a Piper Cub...
Kentucky Clay: Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty

Kentucky Clay: Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty

While Bateman’s work delineates her genealogy filled with the famous Clays and Cecils of Virginia and Kentucky, this is as much an intimate introduction into a “famous first family.
Cara Ellen Modisett

Traveling Light

Not long ago, I was talking with a singer friend about memory. We both hear so often that smells call up the past for many people, but neither of us had found ourselves particularly moved by scent, except perhaps some obvious ones...
Cara Ellen Modisett

A 75-Year Journey Story

Journey stories. They are their own genre, and they occupy a place in many people's childhood reading.
Lee Jones finds oneness with the region through music.

A Cosmic Possum On Stage

Lee Jones wishes he were a good enough bluegrass musician to make the money he does writing and consulting about poker. That would be way more fun.
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