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The Agricultural Adjustment Administration adjusts...
The bondage photos? Why, I thought they were cute
The Overalls Club Movement of 1920
Blue Moon of Kentucky, keep on shining
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2008
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December
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Ringing in the new
A kitchen welcomes Christmas
None dared stop overnight at the Betts house
They's heaps o folks here still believe on Old Chr...
Go tell it on the mountain
Something hit the roof -- like a rubber ball
There's more than one definition of fruitcake in A...
The Mad Gasser of Botetourt County, part 2
The Mad Gasser of Botetourt County, part 1
The Feast of the Seven Fishes
We didn't trim a tree at home; we didn't have any ...
Where's the Valle Crucis post office? Well, that ...
Can you imagine how it felt to be full of milk and...
We air now aiming to give a dumb show for to pleas...
The pie the British authorities banned
I am a poor girl what you might say got no home
Christmas images throughout Appalachia
Where did the convicts and indentured servants go?...
I tried to get her to sing all the song
125 reasons you'll get sent to the lunatic asylum
Muralist Lola Poston and the Lincoln Theatre
Dedicating the Arrowhead Monument at Old Fort
Jumping on a bear to fight fist and skull
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Stearns KY emerges out of the Big Survey
Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!
Why not Skyland?
Rich outsiders vs. the less rich locals at Skyland...
Old Order Amish
The women of this country are going to come and si...
Acid rain devastates Tennessee's Copper Basin
Double murder in Vinton County, part 2
Double murder in Vinton County, part 1
From the heart of the man farthest down
Amelia Earhart drops in
Judaculla Rock
It throwed the lead mule way up on the hillside
The Guineas of West Virginia
The farmer has become a prince
Fire set during a robbery
I want to go back, part 2
Malted Milk and madness in Huntsville
Bastardy Bonds
We are anxious to know how far the broadcast is re...
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Sadie Hawkins Day
Death, witches and superstitions
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