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Book Review: ‘The Burying Man’

This historical novel is set Depression-era Harlan, KY, where lethal labor strife leads to the county’s desperate coal mine wars.

February 11, 2013 Tennessee / Writers

Book Review: ‘Tales from the Hills and Hollows of East Tennessee’

Instead of telling you why Union County’s history is interesting, she shows you detail by detail why it has such a hold on her.

November 15, 2012 Appalachian scary tales / Cherokee folklore / Halloween / Writers

Beware the Hunter’s Moon

The sound of the hounds on the scent could be heard clearly across the mountains. He knew they were trailing the Ghost Bear. Every instinct he had told him so.

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May 8, 2012 Virginia / Writers

‘The Girl From Stretchneck Holler’ now out as e-book

Excerpt from newly published book ‘The Girl from Stretchneck Holler: Inside Appalachia,’ by Betty Dotson-Lewis and Kathleen Colley Slusher.

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November 8, 2011 Great Smoky Mountains / Preachers / Tennessee / Writers

A Smoky Mountain clan protects its way of life one song at a time

The Reverend Craig Chess is a young minister with a problem: his first church assignment is located in the Tennessee Smoky Mountains.

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