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Elaine de Kooning and Buckminster Fuller’s Venetian Blind Strip Dome, 1948 Summer Session in the Arts, Black Mountain College
June 6, 2017 Appalachian celebrities / Colleges & Universities / Inventors / North Carolina

The Supine Dome flops in a NC field

In 1948 Buckminster Fuller aimed to produce a geodesic dome with a forty-eight foot diameter at Black Mountain College.

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Dagmar emblem
May 1, 2017 Appalachian celebrities / Automobiles / Maryland

Miss America 1924 drives a Dagmar

Long before the well-endowed Hollywood starlet of the 1950’s, there was a Dagmar car, built from 1922-1926 in Hagerstown, MD by the M. P. Möller Motor Car Company.

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napoleon hill with book against 100 dollar bill background
March 13, 2017 Appalachian celebrities / Class issues / Virginia / Writers

How Napoleon Hill came to write “Think and Grow Rich”

Napoleon Hill’s book ‘Think and Grow Rich’: the all time bestseller in the success motivation field. Over 100 million copies sold worldwide.

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Nancy Green as Aunt Jemima
March 1, 2017 Advertising industry in Appalachia / Appalachian celebrities / Black Appalachia / Kentucky

Nancy Green, the first ‘Aunt Jemima’

Nancy Green, of Mt Sterling, KY, became the first person to portray the Aunt Jemima pancake character in 1893.

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Carter G. Woodson, ca. 1920, by Brown
February 2, 2017 Appalachian celebrities / Black Appalachia / Black history celebrations / Educators/teachers / West Virginia

Carter G. Woodson, father of Black History Month

West Virginia educator Carter G. Woodson, the son of former slaves, was pivotal in the development of Black History Month.

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    May 19, 2017
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    March 7, 2008
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    July 5, 2019
  • cloverine salve and packaging Kids! Get rich selling Cloverine Salve!
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    November 3, 2011
  • Source: Unsplash Appalachian Innovators: Untold Stories of Invention and Ingenuity
    July 16, 2024
  • The Southeast Floods of 1916 in North Carolina; Public domain image provided by NOAA Heavy Rainfall Events and Their Impacts in Appalachian History
    February 27, 2024
  • canning and pickling jars still life From Root Cellars to Larders to Modern Pantries: The Evolution of Food Storage in Appalachian Homesteads
    January 12, 2024
  • chef holds cluster of grapes to camera A Journey Through Appalachian Winemaking History
    November 9, 2023
  • 1930s Ford truck untended in a garage / Library of Congress The Historic Role and Contemporary Allure of Vintage Appalachian Farm Trucks
    September 7, 2023
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  • Kat on “Everyday” Appalachian Superstitions

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