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A Rose by Any Other Name

How a "back-to-the-land hippie homesteader" built a collection of plants in demand all over the country.
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Wytheville Loves Edith

Edith Bolling Wilson, wife of the 28th President of the U.S., has been called "the first woman president."
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Mollie’s Butt? Scratch Britches Mountain?

Yes, the Great Smokies are full of strange and curious place-names.
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Coal Creek? Lake City? Rocky Top? What’s in a Name?

One Tennessee mountain town has a penchant for changing its name every few decades. And some folks tend to never give up on the old one(s).
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Gone But Not Forgotten

The sad tale of 10-year-old Vannie Cook and her disappearance in the mountains lives on in the Smokies.

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