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Kentucky's Hensley Settlement: Time Turned Backwards
On a remote, high plateau straddling Kentucky and Virginia sits the Hensley Settlement, where, for the first 50 years of the 20th century, two extended mountain families lived 18th-century lives in splendid isolation. Read more
Feb 16, 2009
Joseph Mackereth
Guardians of the Blooms
Helen and Julia Smith spent a quarter century documenting the wildflowers along the Blue Ridge Parkway on slides and in notebooks, eventually influencing the Parkway to change its mowing practices to preserve the blooms. Read more
Jun 18, 2018
Discovering Big South Fork
A unique combination of national river and national recreation area preserves a section of the Cumberland Plateau west of the Blue Ridge... Read more
Jan 1, 2009
Courtesy Gary Powers Jr / Cold War Museum
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... Read more
May 1, 2012
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