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Letters about life in the Appalachian south from a former journalist based in Northeast Tennessee.
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Letters from Appalachia: What my ancestors were doing on July 4, 1776 (opens the original)
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Happy Birthday, America!The planet’s Great Experiment is 250 years old today, a mere teenager compared to some of our far more ancient neighbor nations. Maybe that explains all of our angst as of late.A 250th birthday is a semiquincentennial. Drop that on your friends at the picnic later today, if you can figure out how to say it. Bicentennial rolls off the tongue far more easily. Even I could pronounce that back in 1976, and I was just a pudge-pot of a four-year-old.Five decades have blurred my
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