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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
Pat and Chuck Blackley
Tragedy in the Making? Sudden Oak Death Looms
Here in the 100th Anniversary year of the first detection of the chestnut blight, the tree that has largely replaced it in the forests of the southern Appalachians is at risk for a similar fate. Read more
Jan 1, 2009
Audrey Frank
Raggedy Ann And Andy's Mountain Home
Alive and Well In The Deep Deep Woods. Read more
Jun 18, 2018
Ben Crookshanks
Meadow River Lumber Company
The little town of Rainelle came into being as the result of the world’s largest hardwood mill, run by the Brothers Raine. Gone now for more than three decades, Meadow River Lumber lives only in the memories of older members of its former home. Read more
Jan 22, 2005
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