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Author: Dave Tabler

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May 21, 2014 Kentucky / Regional food

Of Love, Beans and Pie Luck in Appalachia

Recently, folks gathered at the Hindman Settlement School in the hills of Southeastern Kentucky for the first Appalachian Food Summit.

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May 18, 2014 Podcast

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We open today’s show with guest author and actress Barbara Bates Smith, who discusses her long running one-woman show ‘Ivy Rowe’.

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May 12, 2014 Storytelling

She’s Turned into a Mountain Woman

Barbara Bates Smith discusses her one-woman show ‘Ivy Rowe,’ based on a character from Lee Smith’s “Fair and Tender Ladies.”

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May 6, 2014 Forestry / Natural resource management

Researchers Track “Gray Ghosts” Across the Southern Appalachians

Researchers & land managers focus on the hemlock woolly adelgid’s casualties using high-tech tools to follow the footprints of lost tree life.

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May 1, 2014 Museums / Quilts/quilting / Virginia

Appalachian Heritage Quilts exhibit opens at Museum of the Middle Appalachians

Appalachian Heritage Quilts on display at Museum of the Middle Appalachians. Whether a warmer for cold nights or naps – quilts are a record.

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