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Most of the people featured in the series come from, or live in, the Appalachian region, including the narrator Sissy Spacek.Some of the other people featured include Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Barbara Kingsolver, E. O. Wilson, Nikki Giovanni, Robert Coles, Wilma Dykeman, Charles Hudson, Denise Giardina, Mary Lee Settle, John Ehle, Sharyn McCrumb, and Gurney Norman.
James Dee Crowe was born on August 27, 1937, in Lexington, Kentucky. [1] He began playing the banjo early on and was offered a job with Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys, a backup group in 1954. [2] [3] Before starting in Martin's band, Crowe played with Pee Wee Lambert and Curly Parker. [4] Crowe recorded with Martin between 1956 and 1960. [5]
Hensley Settlement is an Appalachian living history museum on Brush Mountain, Bell County, Kentucky in the United States.The settlement is part of the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park and it is located approximately 10 miles (16 km) north of the park visitor center on Ridge Trail.
At the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1776, the Overmountain settlers (most of whom were Whigs opposed to the monarchy) began preparing for invasion. The signing of the Watauga Petition and its acceptance by North Carolina —annexing the Washington District to that colony —added further impetus to the Cherokee, who were also being encouraged by the British, to push the American ...
About half of all mountain people are in Asia, and there are large and rapidly growing populations in South and Central America. 70% live below 1,500 metres (4,900 ft), and less than 10% above 2,500 metres (8,200 ft). A very small number of people in the Himalayas and the Andes live permanently at elevations over 4,500 metres (14,800 ft). [16]
This is a list of notable Appalachian Americans, including both natives of the Appalachian Region and members of the Appalachian diaspora outside of Appalachia. . Appalachians are an unrecognized demographic of the United States Census Bureau, but due to various factors have developed a unique culture
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The Cumberland Gap is one of many passes in the Appalachian Mountains, but one of the few in the continuous Cumberland Mountain ridgeline. [2] It lies within Cumberland Gap National Historical Park and is located on the border of present-day Kentucky and Virginia, approximately 0.25 miles (0.40 km) northeast of the tri-state marker with Tennessee.