During a recent drive through Southwest Virginia, I came to a region that is credited with giving birth to country music....
Africans, some who had escaped enslavement by using the Underground Railroad that wound through Appalachia, settled in and began hollowing out gourds to make an instrument native to their homeland....
I discovered a history text that helped explain that, too.In the 1830s, artisans and small farmers along the Blue Ridge were paying higher property taxes than the wealthy p
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