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The boldest indecent passages I have ever seen

In 1944 the Cambridge Police Chief, Boston’s Police Commissioner, & the Boston Bookseller’s Association all joined to squash ‘Strange Fruit’.

January 25, 2018 Appalachian celebrities / Civil War / Memoirs / Ohio / Politics

Every time I attempted to start, my new horse would commence to kick

Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th U.S. President and Union general-in-chief during the Civil War, grew up the son of an Ohio tanner.

December 6, 2017 Appalachian celebrities / Black Appalachia / Railroad industry / West Virginia

John Henry was hammering

The legend began in Big Bend Tunnel, Summers County, WV, which CSX Railroad still uses today. He was the most powerful man working the rails.

October 2, 2017 Appalachian celebrities / North Carolina / Writers

And the goats are fine, thanks

Carl Sandburg, who penned “the fog comes in on little cats’ feet,” moved to Connemara in WNC for the sake of the little goats’ feet.

July 17, 2017 Appalachian celebrities / Maryland

Francis Scott Key’s descendants in western Maryland

A very deep love for Maryland’s Oakland & Garrett County is born into all the descendants of Francis Scott Key, who’ve spent summers at 79 Alder Street.

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