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January 26, 2018 Modernization / North Carolina

A nickel’s worth of ice, please

The ice man became an American institution, delivering ice as needed when consumers posted the ‘Ice Today’ sign in their windows.

telephone switchboard early 20th century

May 15, 2017 Modernization

Operator, ring me up

The telephone was a big hit with the farm families who could afford one. But there were rarely enough calls to tie a rural operator to her switchboard.

construction crews at TVA Norris Dam November 1933

January 19, 2016 Dam building / Electric industry / Modernization

Some of our adventures in the Tennessee Valley

Norris damsite on Tennessee’s Clinch River, where 2,000 men are at work on preliminary construction. November, 1933.

RCA Radiola ad 1927 David Hendrickson illustrator

March 30, 2015 Modernization / North Carolina / Radio

Radio and the Blue Ridge

Joe Wilson, a 2001 NEA National Heritage Fellow, discusses the impact early radio had in his hometown, and on America more broadly.

October 18, 2013 Culture shifts / Modernization

Globalization in Appalachia’s Cast Iron Skillet

What will Appalachian culture of tomorrow look like? Will it just be another spot on the map more associated with coal than its own people?

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