Appalachian History

A national treasure almost lost forever

Leo J. Beachy is thought to have taken 10,000 photographs a year on 5×7 inch glass plates of his beloved Garrett County, MD.

By 1878, about 50 sq. mi. had been stripped of vegetation. Without trees and undergrowth, the top soil began to erode and huge gullies formed.

I know the grocery business and I know the meat business from top to bottom. I do all the buying for the meat counter and cut it and weigh it.

Breaks Interstate Park, astride the VA/KY border along the Russell Fork of the Big Sandy River, is one of only 2 interstate parks nationwide.

“I don’t know anything else. You see, I was born in North Georgia, in Dalton, the town that has figured in my books as ‘Darley’.”

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