Posted on September 21, 2018
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This map spotlights the stops on our 2018 Fall in the Cumberlands tour. The “natural” route is Berea, Ky. to Oak Ridge, Tenn. to Elizabethtown, Ky.
Category: Arts, College or University, Cultural, Historic site, Industrial, National Park, Restaurant, State ParkTags: Abraham Lincoln, Berea, Clinton, Cumberland Gap, Elizabethtown, Historic Rugby, Hodgenville, Kentucky, Lincoln Memorial University, Middlesboro, Museum of Appalachia, Norris Dam, Pall Mall, Rocky Top, Tennessee, W G Lenoir Museum
Posted on June 1, 2018
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“I just plain hated the idea of that object being hauled to Terre Haute or Dayton and made into a table completely removed from the context of the region, and from the people who made it and used it.” Thus spoke John Rice Irwin,…
Category: Arts, Cultural, Historic site, Industrial, Restaurant, ShoppingTags: Anderson County, Appalachia, Arts, Clinton, Crafts, East Tennessee, Farms, John Rice Irwin, Museum of Appalachia, Tennessee, Tools
Posted on June 1, 2018
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Fifty-two years ago, 12 young people from East Tennessee walked into history and changed the world. And yet their struggle was little-noted, nor long-remembered until another motivated band formed the Green McAdoo Cultural Center. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision…