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Curios: How I Helped Save an Icon

Does renovating a 1903 home prepare you for up-in-the-air restoration of a piece of treasured Americana?

Curios: Shanks Oak Falls with Grace

Jonesborough, Tennessee’s signature white oak succumbed to a storm last summer, but its legacy lives on.

Curios: Frosty the West Virginian

The winter character came to be from a song written by West Virginian Jack Rollins, who is buried in the town of Keyser.

Curios: Star Struck in Front Royal, Virginia – Bing’s 1950 Home Run

Bing Crosby, the celebrated singer, actor and sportsman, created a lasting memorial in the form of a baseball stadium on a day when 25,000 people came out to help create it.

Thoroughly Modern Moonshine

Danielle Parton revives her family’s bootlegging past with a feminine touch.

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Painters including Angela Minor elevate to work on a Rock City barn.

Curios: How I Helped Save an Icon

Does renovating a 1903 home prepare you for up-in-the-air restoration of a piece of treasured Americana?
The stump of the fallen Shanks Oak in Jonesborough, Tennessee, is celebrated by about 20 people who gathered soon after the 700-year-old tree was felled by a storm.

Curios: Shanks Oak Falls with Grace

Jonesborough, Tennessee’s signature white oak succumbed to a storm last summer, but its legacy lives on.
Modern-day Frosty (Mike Ryan) hangs out with Santa Claus in Keyser, West Virginia.

Curios: Frosty the West Virginian

The winter character came to be from a song written by West Virginian Jack Rollins, who is buried in the town of Keyser.
Crosby thrilled locals and showed off his best moves at a square dance named in his honor.

Curios: Star Struck in Front Royal, Virginia – Bing’s 1950 Home Run

Bing Crosby, the celebrated singer, actor and sportsman, created a lasting memorial in the form of a baseball stadium on a day when 25,000 people came out to help create it.
Danielle Parton says she first “tasted the medicine” at age 5 or 6.

Thoroughly Modern Moonshine

Danielle Parton revives her family’s bootlegging past with a feminine touch.
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Knoxville Asian Festival, August 29-30,  Knoxville, Tennessee. Photo courtesy of Asian Culture Center of TN
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