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November
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- The women of this country are going to come and si...
- Acid rain devastates Tennessee's Copper Basin
- Double murder in Vinton County, part 2
- Double murder in Vinton County, part 1
- From the heart of the man farthest down
- Amelia Earhart drops in
- Judaculla Rock
- It throwed the lead mule way up on the hillside
- The Guineas of West Virginia
- The farmer has become a prince
- Fire set during a robbery
- I want to go back, part 2
- Malted Milk and madness in Huntsville
- Bastardy Bonds
- We are anxious to know how far the broadcast is re...
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October
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- Sadie Hawkins Day
- Death, witches and superstitions
- He'd been known to escape houses through the keyho...
- Every woman in my place is bound to feel blue too
- The SC house the old Confederate veterans called h...
- Along the wooded slopes and ridges
- The first minigolf tournament in the US
- The bottle tree
- Gravely and his motor plow
- Al Capone comes to Appalachia
- Stalking game with his slingshot
- They used outlaws and anything they could get
- Just passing through---the Scottish Travellers
- And it’s home little gal and do-si-do
- Tricked into pushing one of the best mowers in the...
- White livered widders
- He aimed to give Grit's readers courage and streng...
- Millie-Christine: The Two-Headed Nightingale
- When you get into your head to go sparking, go ove...
- First RFD mail delivery in America
- You only got one pair of shoes a year
- The sorghum season is on!
- Cab Calloway comes to Cumberland
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September
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- He is still laughing over that checkers game
- The Catawbas teach former enemy their pottery secr...
- The Great Pandemic of 1918, part 2
- The Great Pandemic of 1918, part 1
- Gertrude a la September Morn
- Never to Leave the Holler!
- The Laurel Creek Murders, part 2
- The Laurel Creek Murders, part 1
- Apple butter thick enough to slice
- General Braddock's road through the wilderness
- Grandma's Apron
- Author Neal Thompson discusses the birth of NASCAR...
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November
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