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Author: Dave Tabler

brook trout decoy, 19th century
August 25, 2014 Fishing / Tennessee / Timber Industry

Book Excerpt: ‘Downstream: Reflections on Brook Trout, Fly Fishing, and the Waters of Appalachia’

Tennessee’s lower Tellico River offers a picture of what a trout river can look like after it has been restored.

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evolving appalachia sites identified
August 22, 2014 Colleges & Universities / Natural resource management / Virginia

Beyond Citizen Science: Natural History as a Cultural Bridge in Appalachia

Evolving Appalachia allows users to contribute their wildlife sightings that become real scientific data alongside professional scientists’.

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Youghiogheny River Scene, Scenes along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
August 21, 2014 Dam building / Maryland / Pennsylvania

Dams on the Upper Yough: What Almost Wasn’t

Engineers, politicians, power companies spent the first half of the 20th century trying to reduce the Youghiogheny River to a series of lakes.

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Carding Room, Merrimack Mills, Huntsville
August 20, 2014 Alabama / Child labor / Cotton mills / Unions

Just Trembling All Over—the Textile Strike of 1934 in Huntsville, AL

At the Depression’s height, 4,000+ textile mill workers in Huntsville walked off the job, beginning a strike that eventually spread to Maine.

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bucket brigade and jonesborough f.d. patch
August 19, 2014 Firefighting / Tennessee

‘Fire: An Urban Menace’ opens at Jonesborough/Washington County History Museum

The newest permanent exhibit at the Jonesborough/Washington County History Museum in Tennessee is ‘Fire: An Urban Menace.’

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    January 12, 2024
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    September 7, 2023
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