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bowes doll and carriage display at heritage
September 18, 2014 Collectors/collecting / Museums / West Virginia

Heritage Farm Museum Adds New Doll Exhibit

The Bowes Doll & Carriage Exhibit was 3 years in the making. Connie & Don Bowes share how they assembled their collection over a lifetime.

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1930s 1940s womens fashion drawings
September 17, 2014 Alabama / Clothing / Fashion / Historic preservation / Museums

What They Wore in Cherokee County, AL

Cherokee County Historical Museum aims to make the people in the past alive to those in the present with this exhibit on local fashions.

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germain media camera points at sunset
September 16, 2014 Documentary Films / North Carolina

Germain Media films highlight Appalachian Characters and Communities

A Jefferson, NC based film production company seeks to capture real stories of the High Country for an audience interested in ‘back when.’

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old king coal editorial cartoon 1906
September 15, 2014 Coal mining / Unions / West Virginia

The Wisdom of Old Blair Mountain

Activist Wilma Lee Steele surveys the bloody history of WV’s Blair Mountain and the struggle it represents right up to the present day.

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family tree root reaches out to daniel boone b&w line art
September 12, 2014 Geneaology / North Carolina / Oral histories

Tapping Oil at the Roots of a Family Tree

“Dad pretended to be serious when he joked that he, I, & the Coles were related to Daniel Boone,” says Janice Cole Hopkins, who in fact is!

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    May 19, 2017
  • The Prophet Ezekiel; art ca. 1900 The Blood Verse
    March 7, 2008
  • John Shell in hat, with a cane World’s oldest man — Kentuckian John Shell
    July 5, 2019
  • cloverine salve and packaging Kids! Get rich selling Cloverine Salve!
    May 31, 2016
  • still from TV series Christy Christy and Leonora: City Girl, Country Gal
    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
  • Giovanna Quattrone on How Dino Crocetti of Steubenville became pop singer Dean Martin
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  • kota on North Carolina Ghost Town
  • Felicia Ross on She had one husband, five children, and four legs
  • Joseph Tropea on Worst mine disaster in US history

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