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From the Farm: Assembling the Elephant
Pieces of lives are just that until someone stands back, considers and stitches them into a living, breathing whole.
Apr 1, 2014
Sheep Tales
Sheep never forget. Shepherds might, now and then, but their flocks will remind them every time. And that's just one of their tricks.
Jan 1, 2009
Courtesy Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), Lynchburg District.
The Storm That Swallowed a County
In late August, 1969, Hurricane Camille produced a once-in-10,000-years inland storm with the strength of a 40,000-megaton nuclear bomb that nearly destroyed Nelson County, Va.
Music, Mosquitoes and Memories
It’s been a year since I last heard that fall sound, the sound of my youth, floating on the cooling air in our neighborhood of an afternoon, before the leaves have started changing but after the sky has started taking on its crisp, colder blue.
Aug 20, 2011
Reader Favorites: Tom Dooley, Bound to Die
A love triangle, a murder, a young man on the gallows… it’s the stuff ballads are made of. Sharyn McCrumb takes a trip to N.C. to unravel the truth about Tom Dooley – or rather, Tom Dula – hanged in 1868 for a crime that still raises questions.
Jan 1, 2009
Photos courtesy of Pike County KY Tourism Commission ("Devil Anse" Hatfield photo courtesy West Virginia State Archives)
Hatfields & McCoys, Revisited, Part 11: "It's The Pigs! "
I am sure that many intelligent readers of feud books wonder, as I did for several decades, why people believe the cartoonish feud yarns.
Sep 29, 2015
Jo Tennis
Frog Level Lives!
How would a town ever get that name? And why would people still be working hard to preserve its signature building?
Jan 1, 2011
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