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Cold Mountain's Hero
Cold Mountain,” the movie starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger, is based on Charles Frazier’s novel set in the mountains of North Carolina. Elizabeth Hunter paid a visit to the spot where some say Pinkney Inman died. Read more
Jan 1, 2004
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. 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
Ron Necciai: The Man Who Struck Out Everybody
A baseball giant no lesser than Branch Rickey -- the man who broke baseball's color line by bringing Jackie Robinson to the major leagues in 1947 -- called him one of the three greatest pitchers I've ever seen. Read more
Apr 22, 2009
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