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Linotype keypuncher at The Southwest Times
April 20, 2017 Newspaper / Virginia

A day in the life of Pulaski County VA

“F. A. Seagle was called to Marion today in connection with the undertaking department of Seagle Bros.” –a cross section of 1928 life

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The Singing Stenographer at Its' Wheeling Steel show
January 2, 2017 Radio / Steel industry / West Virginia

Did You See My Girls on the Radio?

January 2, 1938: It’s Wheeling Steel, a live radio program from the Capitol Theater in Wheeling, premiered nationwide on the Mutual Network.

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mountain laurel logo and newspaper stack
November 7, 2014 Ghost Towns / North Carolina

Mortimer & Edgemont, NC – a Backroads Tour via ‘The Mountain Laurel’

Bob Heafner, publisher of ‘The Mountain Laurel,’ recently reviewed the route of one his 1984 Backroads Tours, through Mortimer & Edgemont, NC.

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sadie hawkins day chase 1944
October 31, 2008 Appalachia in the media / Love and romance

Sadie Hawkins Day

“Sadie Hawkins Day” featured a footrace in which the unmarried girls pursued the town’s most eligible bachelors.

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daniel boone poster against palace theatre background
October 24, 2007 Appalachia in the media / Appalachian celebrities / Backwoodsmen/guides / Colonial Era / Kentucky

‘Daniel Boone’ opens at the Palace

For all his prowess, George O’Brien manages to project Daniel Boone as a shy, unassuming adventurer, which is presumably what the man was.

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