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Sally Mann, Photographer

Can you talk a little about how “Deep South” came to be?

Filming the War

A new documentary just aired on Blue Ridge PBS in conjunction with the Virginia Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission and the Virginia Tech Center for Civil War Studies, just in time for the war’s 150th anniversary year.

The Beloved Woman: Nancy Ward

Revered first for her ferociousness in battle and later for her peacemaking skills, the Cherokee woman is commemorated along U.S. 411 near Benton,Tenn.

The Ballad of Miss Kay

There are champions and there are championships. In Avery County, N.C., they’re both about square dancing and it’s just about the best you’ve ever seen anywhere.

Tom Brown – The Apple Hunter

Blue Ridge antique apple hunter Tom Brown shares his passionate search and rescue of heritage apples and lost apple varieties in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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The Lexington, Va. photographer’s newest book,“Deep South,” will be released in September – a collection of landscapes from Virginia, Georgia and Mississippi. Mann’s previous books include “What Remains” and “Immediate Family.” Named America’s Best Photographer by Time magazine in 1991, Mann is the subject of two HBO/BBC documentaries, the second to be released in early 2006.

Sally Mann, Photographer

Can you talk a little about how “Deep South” came to be?
Blue Ridge PBS staffer Carol Jennings films Union troops at New Market, Va.

Filming the War

A new documentary just aired on Blue Ridge PBS in conjunction with the Virginia Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission and the Virginia Tech Center for Civil War Studies, just in time for the war’s 150th anniversary year.
The travels of the Nancy Ward statue, shown here when it stood in the Arnwine Cemetery in Grainger County, Tenn., are nearly as full of history and intrigue as the subject’s own life.

The Beloved Woman: Nancy Ward

Revered first for her ferociousness in battle and later for her peacemaking skills, the Cherokee woman is commemorated along U.S. 411 near Benton,Tenn.
Miss Kay Burleson Wilkins in the 1980s.

The Ballad of Miss Kay

There are champions and there are championships. In Avery County, N.C., they’re both about square dancing and it’s just about the best you’ve ever seen anywhere.

Tom Brown – The Apple Hunter

Blue Ridge antique apple hunter Tom Brown shares his passionate search and rescue of heritage apples and lost apple varieties in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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