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Why Do Appalachians Always Return “Home”?

I was watching a documentary on Appalachia and one of the things they talked about was the fact that the people almost always return home when they move away and they did not know why.  They talked about how people used to go to bigger cities for work and then bring their families back to the [...]

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My Realization

My Realization
By: Patricia Samples Workman
We’d just moved back to California. It was early 1959 and I’d started first grade. We lived in a house with a vacant lot for a yard. It was located just a few houses over from the Harbor Freeway. You could see the signs on the freeway for the Imperial Highway [...]

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An Unforgettable Trip

     Our family was on the move again—we were on another cross-country trip.  This time we were traveling on a Greyhound Bus on Rt. 66.  It was 1956. I was three years old; my brother Dusty was one and a half.  This was my third or fourth cross-country trip; and that’s not counting my trip [...]

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Kentucky Pioneers (1941)

This documentary was done in collaboration with one of my favorite KY authors, Thomas D. Clark, Ph.D.

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