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Author: Dave Tabler

March 12, 2019 Appalachian celebrities / Georgia / Scouting

Juliette Low establishes first Girl Scout camp

Girl Scouts founder Juliette Low was instrumental in getting this camp underway; in fact it’s the only camp she personally helped establish.

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Page 1 of The West Virginian, March 11 1920
March 11, 2019 West Virginia / Womens suffrage

WV women win right to vote

In a fifteen to fourteen vote on March 10, the state Senate made West Virginia the thirty-fourth of the thirty-six states needed to ratify the amendment.

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Two boaters on a lake in this 1897 painting of The Glades
March 8, 2019 Maryland / Natural resource management

The oldest mountain peatland in the Appalachians

Those broad, enclosed valleys whose meandering streams are often bordered by rather marshy ground are known in Garrett County as Glades.

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March 7, 2019 Cherokee folklore

Why The Possum’s Tail Is Bare

Everybody laughed so long that the Possum wondered what they meant. He looked around the circle of animals and they were all laughing at him.

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anderson county, sc map 1843
March 6, 2019 Love and romance / South Carolina

Having only our young faces to admire—we loved

Walter M. Gibson lived near Sandy Springs, SC. He was an adventurer, and it is said was once prime minister of the Sandwich Islands.

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