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Year: 2011

st paul va historic district
April 14, 2011 Historic preservation / Virginia

Two Wise County places added to Virginia Landmarks Register

The Virginia Department of Historic Resources approved the St. Paul Historic District and Sunnydale Farm near Pound for listing.

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Lin Craven Georgia Folk Pottery Man With Chicken Sculpt; Mebane Antique Auction
April 13, 2011 Georgia / Pottery

Well known Southern potter passes away today

Honored by the Library of Congress, chosen to participate in the Bicentennial Local Legacies Project, her works are in the Smithsonian.

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Oconaluftee Visitor Center
April 13, 2011 Great Smoky Mountains / Tennessee

Sixty Years Later, “Permanent” Oconaluftee Visitor Center Opens In Great Smoky Mountains National Park

The 6,300-square-foot visitor center and history museum, located two miles north of Cherokee, North Carolina, opened April 1 to the public.

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roger cooper and apprentice, 2011
March 28, 2011 Appalachian music / Fiddlers/fiddling / Recording industry

Kentucky’s Roger Cooper: Big Sandy River and Beyond

Roger Cooper is a link to the past for what he calls Big Sandy River style fiddling. He says, “I’ve never heard anybody else call it that.”

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williamson chamber of commerce postcard
March 22, 2011 General stores / Hobo life / Oral histories / Unions / West Virginia

The Depression gave my family and me a gratefulness nothing else did

Greed today took off from the Depression.  Big companies tried to get from everybody so they could get by in case of another Depression.

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