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Way back when I started this journey, my mountain dream was to retire to the mountains and spend my days wandering the backroads and using my cameras to capture the beauty I found. Over the years that dream has faded… It’s nice to stumble upon someone who managed to pull it off. Appalachia is renowned for its beautiful scenery and
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Travel guide features must see attractions, debuts video series FRANKFORT, Ky. (Jan. 10, 2023) – The Kentucky Department of Tourism released the 2023 Official Kentucky Visitor’s Guide, Team Kentucky’s official visitor’s guide for travel in the commonwealth. The 2023 Official Kentucky Visitor’s Guide serves as the state’s primary tourism advertising and promotional piece with nearly 350,000 copies distributed worldwide. Beauty
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“Food and drink! Music and artworks! Seasonal celebrations galore! Pick your favorite festival theme and start planning.” Blue Ridge Country I was spending some time on Facebook today and saw a post about NC Mineral and Gem Festival. The post had a copy of the cover of the Blue Ridge Country Magazine 2023 Festival & Event Guide. For over a
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Recorded in the mountains of Kentucky. This Bull Elk was a brute! He wasn’t afraid and watched us as much as we watched him. He was the king there. 🙂 The Rocky Mountain Elk that roam the hardwood forests of eastern Kentucky were established by a six-year restoration program. Eastern elk were native to Kentucky but were eradicated by the
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Black Mountain was produced by Appalshop’s Community Media Initiative in 1998 in response to a group of Harlan Co. Kentucky residents who were organizing against a mountaintop removal permit for the tallest mountain in the state. The video was screened across the state in homes, churches, and college campuses. Produced by Greg Howard, Tom Hansell, and Nick Szuberla. For more
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A nice Mountains of Kentucky image I found: Sun Bathing Image by Universal Pops (mostly inactive)Thank you for taking time to view this photo; and thanks to those of you leaving a comment. The mist rising like smoke from the mountains of Kentucky–the photo was taken in Letcher County, Kentucky, just over the Virginia line in Pound Gap. This work
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Mary Breckinridge rode through the mountains in the summer of 1928, visiting lonely cabins and riding up steep mountain canyons. She gave nursing care to men, women, and especially children. Word spread that she was a nurse and mothers flocked to her with their sick babies. For the next 40 years, Mary Breckinridge served the Kentucky mountain people as a
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About this ItemTitleMountain woman by her home up Stinking Creek, Pine Mountain, KentuckyContributor NamesWolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographerCreated / Published1940 Aug.Subject Headings United States–Kentucky–Knox County–Stinking CreekHeadingsNitrate negatives.GenreNitrate negativesNotes Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi Temp. note:
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Check out these Black Mountain, Kentucky images: Black Mountain Image by cindy47452With the heavy rain we had the night we stayed in Perry County, Kentucky, there were thousands of these little streams pouring large amounts of water. The water comes from the top of the mountains and runs all the way to the road. I love the black color of
Keep readingThis is 17500 Acres for sale in the Beautiful Mountains of Kentucky! The infrastructure of Electric and 40 Ft. wide gravel roads are already on the property and in great condition! The property currently has over 60 million board feet of marketable timber ready for harvest and produces approx. 0000 per year from coal easement rights payable to the owner.
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