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Daniel Boone (October 22, 1734 - September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and hunter whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now the U.S. state of Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies. Despite resistance from American Indians, for whom Kentucky was a traditional hunting ground, … - John Jacob Niles
John Jacob Niles (b. Louisville, Kentucky, April 28, 1892; d. Lexington, Kentucky, March 1, 1980) was an American composer, singer, and collector of traditional ballads. Called the "Dean of American Balladeers", Niles was an important influence on the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, with Joan Baez, Burl Ives, and Peter, Paul and Mary, among others, recording his songs. - Abraham Wood
Abraham Wood was an English fur trader (specifically the deerskin trade) and explorer of colonial Virginia during the 17th century. His base of operations was Fort Henry, near present-day Richmond, Virginia. He is sometimes referred to as "General" or "Colonel" Wood. The first recorded English explorations of the southern Appalachian Mountains were by fur traders associated with Abraham Wood. - George Croghan
George Croghan (c. 1720 - August 31, 1782) was a prominent American colonist and early advocate of westward expansion. He was an experienced Indian agent and fur trader. His name is also seen spelled as "Crogan" and "Crowgan", and is said to have been pronounced with a silent "g". George Croghan was born in Dublin, Ireland around 1720, moved to Colonial America in 1741, and became a fur trader in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. - John Lederer
John Lederer, was a nurse and an explorer of the Appalachian Mountains. Lederer was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1644, and studied medicine at the Hamburg Academic Gymnasium. He later migrated to the United States. Lederer arrived in Virginia in 1669. Believing that the riches of California lay just beyond the mountains west of Virginia, Sir William Berkeley, colonial governor of Virginia, … - John Ehle
John Marsden Ehle, Jr. (born December 13, 1925) is an American writer known best for his fiction set in the Appalachian Mountains of the American South. - Franklin Graham
William Franklin Graham III, known publicly as Franklin Graham (born July 14, 1952), is an American Christian evangelist and missionary. The fourth out of five children of evangelist Billy Graham and wife Ruth Bell Graham, he was born and raised in the Appalachian Mountains outside Asheville, North Carolina, and currently lives in Boone, North Carolina. - Doug Elliott
Doug Elliott is a storyteller, herbalist and naturalist whose specialty is the American Appalachians. He is the author of several books featuring his own illustrations. His recordings and writings take much from the Native American mythology and world view. In addition, Elliott is an expert on basket weaving and other primitive skills. - Charles F. Dowd
Charles F. Dowd (1825-1904) was a co-principal (with his wife Harriet M. Dowd) of the Temple Grove Ladies Seminary in Saratoga Springs, New York. He was the first person to propose multiple time zones for any country, those for the railways of the United States. He did not propose their extension to the entire world. About 1863, he first proposed time zones for United States railways to teenage girls that he was teaching. - Christopher Camuto
Christopher Camuto is a writer and outdoorsman whose work focuses primarily on the natural environment. He is the author of a nonfiction trilogy on the southern Appalachian Mountains that includes "A Fly Fisherman’s Blue Ridge", "Another Country: Journeying Toward the Cherokee Mountains", and "Hunting from Home: A Year Afield in the Blue Ridge Mountains". His second book, "Another Country", is perhaps his most complex, … - Manly Wade Wellman
Manly Wade Wellman (May 21, 1903 - April 5, 1986) was an American writer. He is best known for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains and drawing on the native folklore of that region, but he wrote in a wide variety of genres including: science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, detective fiction, western fiction, juvenile fiction and non-fiction. - Harriette Simpson Arnow
Harriette Arnow was a U.S. novelist, claimed by both Kentucky and Michigan as a native daughter. Arnow has been called an expert on the people of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, but she herself was never a simple hill woman. She loved cities and spent crucial periods of her life in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Detroit, Michigan. She was born Harriette Simpson in Wayne County, Kentucky, and grew up in neighboring Pulaski County. - Chris Offutt
Chris Offutt grew up in Haldeman, Kentucky, a former mining community of two hundred people, and graduated from Morehead State University, KY. He is the author of No Heroes , The Same River Twice , Kentucky Straight , Out of the Woods , and The Good Brother . Honors for his work include Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Offutt is a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. - Hillbilly Jim
Jim Morris (born July 5, 1952) is a professional wrestler best known to fans as Hillbilly Jim. He was one of the World Wrestling Federation's most popular wrestlers of the mid-to-late 1980s. Before appearing in the WWF as Hillbilly Jim, Jim Morris wrestled in the Memphis area under the name Harley Davidson, a biker gimmick; while there, Morris formed a popular tag team with Roger Smith, … - Harold Williams
Dr. Harold Williams, M.Sc, Ph.D, FRSC (born March 14, 1934) is one of the premier field geologists in the history of geology and the foremost expert on the Appalachian Mountains of North America. An expert on the evolution and tectonic development of mountain belts, Williams advanced the theory of colliding super-continents in the 1960's and 1970’s by helping to transform the notion of Continental Drift into the Theory of Plate Tectonics. - Andrew Ellicott
Andrew Ellicott (January 24, 1754 - August 28, 1820) was a U.S. surveyor who helped map many of the territories west of the Appalachians, surveyed the boundaries of the District of Columbia, continued and completed Peter (Pierre) Charles L'Enfant's work on the plan for Washington, D.C., and served as a teacher in survey methods for Meriwether Lewis. - Hedy West
Hedy West (April 6, 1938 - July 3, 2005) was an American folksinger and songwriter. She was of the same generation as Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and other household-name "Sixties folkies". Musically she was the equal of any of her peers. Her stylistic range was far narrower, but arguably far deeper. Born in the mountains of northern Georgia, she had a darkly authentic folk tradition in her blood. - Mike Harding
Mike Harding (born 23 October 1944) is a British singer and comedian. Harding was born in Crumpsall, a suburb of the English city of Manchester. His father, who came from Devon, was an RAF pilot who was killed during World War 2. Mike is of Irish descent on his mother's side. He is known as "The Rochdale Cowboy" after one of his hit records. He has been a broadcaster, stand up comic, photographer, traveller, film maker, playwright, poet, writer and musician. - Kellie Martin
Kellie Noelle Martin (born October 16, 1975) is an American television actress. A native of Riverside, California, Martin loved to perform for her close-knit family. She began her acting career at age seven, when her aunt Rhonda, a nanny for actor Michael Landon's children, helped Martin land a guest spot on the Landon produced series "Father Murphy". Among many roles in motion pictures, made-for-TV movies and television series, … - Uncle Charlie Osborne
Charles Nelson Osborne, (December 26, 1890 - May 27, 1992), affectionately known as "Uncle Charlie," was a musician in the Appalachian Mountains of southwest Virginia. He was born in what is now known as Cowan Osborne Hollow, named for his father, in Copper Creek, Virginia. He was regionally famous from the time he was about 15 until his death at age 101 in 1992. Charlie's unique style of playing the fiddle with his left hand, on a right-handed fiddle, … - Liston B. Ramsey
Liston Bryan Ramsey (1919 - 2001) was a prominent and influential member of the North Carolina House of Representatives for nearly four decades. He was born in 1919 in rural Madison County, located deep in the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina. He was the valedictorian of his senior class at Marshall High School in 1936, and two years later he earned an associate's degree from Mars Hill College, … - Chauncey Beadle
Chauncey Delos Beadle was a Canadian-born botanist and horticulturist active in the southern United States. He was educated in horticulture at Ontario Agricultural College (1884) and Cornell University (1889). In 1890 the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted hired him to oversee the nursery at Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina on a temporary basis. Olmsted had been impressed by Beadle's "encyclopedic" knowledge of plants. - James Deahl
James Deahl (born 1945) is a Canadian poet and publisher. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Deahl grew up in the city and in and around the Laurel Highlands region of the Appalachian Mountains. He moved to Canada in 1970 and holds dual American/Canadian citizenship. He is a founding member of the Canadian Poetry Association. A cycle of his poems is the focus of a one-hour television special, "Under the Watchful Eye" (1993), … - E. R. Ward Neale
Ernest Richard Ward Neale OC FRSC PhD (born July, 1923) is a distinguished Canadian geologist. His scientific research has contributed significantly to the knowledge of the Appalachian region of Atlantic Canada. Neale utilized his enthusiasm for geology to inform students and the general public about discoveries in his field through television, radio, pamphlets, booklets, news magazines, and the popular press. - Edward Fenwick
Bishop Edward Dominic Fenwick, O.P. (b. August 19 1768, St. Mary's County (Maryland) - d. September 26 1832, Wooster, Ohio) was born on the Patuxent river, Maryland (then a colony). At the age of 16 he was educated at the College of Bornheim, near Antwerp, Belgium. Upon completion of his studies he entered the Dominican Order and entered the seminary at Bornheim as a theological student. After ordination he became a professor at the Dominican College. - Mary Gibson Henry
Mary Gibson Henry (1884-1967) was an American botanist and plant collector from Philadelphia, who also served as president of the American Horticultural Society. The "Hymenocallis henryae" is named in her honor. Mrs. Henry had a lifelong interest in botany, and after her children had grown up, she set out collecting in her chauffered car to remote areas of the American coastal plain, piedmont, and Appalachian Mountains, … - Benjamin Bomar
Benjamin Franklin Bomar (August 9,1816 - February 1, 1868) was the second mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. Bomar was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina and studied medicine in Charleston. He practiced medicine in America's first gold rush town of Dahlonega, Georgia for a number of years until he tired of the winters in the Appalachian Mountains. He heard good things about Texas from his brother, Dr. - Jabez Vodrey
Jabez Vodrey (1795-1861) was the first English potter west of the Appalachian Mountains. He was born in Tunstall, Staffordshire, England, the centuries-old center of the English pottery industry. In 1820, Vodrey emigrated to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with another Staffordshire potter, William Frost. Vodrey and Frost operated a pottery in Pittsburgh for about two years. In 1829, Vodrey moved alone to Louisville, Kentucky, … - Eric Layman
Eric Layman (born in 1943 in New Westminster, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet and songwriter/singer. He has lived in Toronto, Ontario since 1957. In the mid to late 60s, he earned a precarious but interesting livelihood selling his poems on the streets of Toronto, around Yorkville and U. of T. He has a BA in Modern Languages and a MA in Comparative Literature, both from U. of T. His influences range from Ayn Rand to Appalachian folk ballads. - William Trent III
Major William Trent, born in Western Pennsylvania, was a soldier and merchant who played an important role in the early stages of the French and Indian War. He was a key local figure in the westward expansion across the Appalachian Mountains in the 1700s. He started his pioneer life being a soldier-of-fortune during the various local Indian wars in Pennsylvania and present day Maryland and West Virginia, and the French and Indian War. - Margaret
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As I walk, as I walk, The universe is walking with me. In beauty it walks before me. In beauty it walks behind me. In beauty it walks below me. In beauty it walks above me. Beauty is on every side. As I walk, I walk with Beauty. Traditional Navajo Prayer. - Bev Anderson
Helll Yase! Name's Bev Anderson and even though..my first name..IS BEV! I assure you. I am a MAN! An appalatian man. A man's man. Part time hunter, full time MAN! A few years ago I was a working man. A man with a happy life and a happy wife living in the city. My only explanation for this turn of events is that Organized War tends to send fright and confusion through my cerebrum. - Cian
I'm just lerning to uze the inter net. - Johnny Rondo
Tell your children about me... The legend lives on. - Teri
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