Book Reviews & Storytelling
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It's Hard to Say Goodbye
The local paper did a full page spread on my dad’s retirement. “The end of an era,” the paper called it. But it was really just the beginning of the end. Read more
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Courtesy of The State Historical Society of Missouri
‘With Me the World has Taken Great Liberties’
As Franklin, Jefferson and Washington were enshrined as founders of the American Republic and exemplars of man in civil society, their contemporary Daniel Boone won fame at the beginning of the westward movement as a man in a state of nature. Read more
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Daniel Boone Steps Through Time
In late spring 1769, Daniel Boone, America’s pioneer hero, made his first excursion through the Cumberland Gap into the storied land of “ken-te-ke,” setting in motion America’s eventual westward movement. Read more
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“It was on the first of May, in the year 1769…”
Cumberland Gap—that fabled portal through the Appalachian Mountain barrier—was the passage through which arose America’s great westward movement. A quarter of a million westering settlers and more passed through that notch beginning in 1775. Read more
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Bringing Daniel Boone to Life
Theater artist Kevin Hardesty portrays Kentucky’s most famous character in “Daniel Boone: The First Kentuckian.” Read more
Will & Deni Films
The living melodic bridge: ‘David Holt’s State of Music’
Popular Appalachian music program enters season four on PBS. Read more
Jun 24, 2019
An Enduring Tradition
Although I was blissfully unaware of the fact, mine was a blessed childhood. It found me growing up in a fly fishing family; molded by my father and other mentors skilled in the sport; and living within short distance of first-rate trout streams. Read more
Jun 1, 2019
Finding ‘The Right Way’
There are several ways to approach the Qualla Boundary, the formal name of the 58,000 acres known as the Eastern Band of the Cherokee tribal trust lands:. Read more
Jun 1, 2019
Guy Smalley illustration • smmalleyart.com
Night Visitor
The memory is dream-like now, but some parts are vivid as if the events happened yesterday. Read more
Jun 1, 2019
It's Hard to Say Goodbye
The local paper did a full page spread on my dad’s retirement. “The end of an era,” the paper called it. But it was really just the beginning of the end. Read more
Jun 1, 2019
Guy Smalley illustration • smmalleyart.com
Just Going Through a Phase
A couple of months ago I stood outside on a cold, clear night and turned my eyes to the sky. I watched as a shadow inched across the glowing orb of the moon until it fully covered it, transforming the moon into the image of a dark reddish ball. Read more
Apr 1, 2019
Photo by James E. Westcott, Official US Army Photographer for the Manhattan Project. American Museum of Science and Energy, amse.org.
