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Author: Dave Tabler

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September 24, 2013 Recording industry / Storytelling / West Virginia

CD Review: ‘The Mountain Came Alive’

This 50 minute instructional CD for middle schoolers is a love song to Appalachian culture in story and song, by West Virginian Adam Booth.

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Sharyn McCrumb against King's Mountain battlescene painting
September 23, 2013 North Carolina / Writers

Historical novel “King’s Mountain” releases tomorrow

St. Martin’s Press will release Sharyn McCrumb’s newest book, King’s Mountain, tomorrow, September 24. We’re pleased to offer you an excerpt.

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asheville's antique tobacco barn
September 19, 2013 Folk art / Houses of worship / North Carolina

A plywood Chapel with a Twist

Congregants dropped their tithes into the steeple, and the sliding floor section made accessing the collection later on a snap.

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September 18, 2013 Love and romance / Virginia / Writers

Married? Or Not? From newly published ‘Hidden History of Roanoke’

Frank Howard defies his powerful father by dating a woman 6 yrs his senior. Scandal ensues, in this excerpt from ‘Hidden History of Roanoke.’

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st mark's church altar
September 10, 2013 Historic preservation / Houses of worship / Virginia

Resurrecting an Episcopal Church in Southwest Virginia

Parishioners from nearby St. Mark’s Episcopal are taking an interest and have decided to try to restore this beautiful white frame church.

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