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Continue reading →: A Fifth and Two Thirds: Dayton’s Historic Nickel, Third Street, and Wright-DunbarAnyone who was someone did their best to be seen hanging out on The Nickel among its shops, restaurants, jazz clubs, at the Palace Theatre, the Classic Theater, and other Black-owned businesses.
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Continue reading →: A Slice of Mitchell County: Spruce Pine & Little SwitzerlandDr. Mitchell was the first scientist to suggest that the historic Black Mountain was the highest peak east of the Mississippi River. To prove this, he climbed the mountain to take measurements in 1857 and met his untimely death. Black Mountain was renamed Mount Mitchell to honour him, and later…
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Continue reading →: Hot Springs, NC: A Resort, An Invasion, & A FireA fire broke out up in the mountains right as I rolled into Hot Springs, North Carolina. Three good ol’ boys, young and red-faced, ran out of Gentry Hardware store hootin’ and hollerin’, as you say in the South.
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Continue reading →: Chattanooga’s Historic 9th Street, The Big 9, & Music MuralsI was instantly excited by its wild decoupage cast of jazz and blues musicians with their instruments amidst a club scene that sprawls across an entire side of the brick building.
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Continue reading →: Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains National Park, An Ancient Mystic Hermit’s Monastic City, & A German War CemeteryCOUNTY WICKLOW County Wicklow is just south of Dublin, in County Dublin, on Ireland’s eastern coast. Its name comes from the Old Norse term Víkingaló which means “Viking’s Meadow” and that tracks because County Wicklow is so close to the counties that make up the Viking Triangle of Ireland. County…
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Continue reading →: Powerscourt House & Gardens: Heather, Gorse, & Foxglove in Ireland’s Wicklow MountainsSo Barry Lyndon, Vikings, Jurassic Park, and Cocaine Bear were filmed here? Say less.
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Continue reading →: Port Middletown, OH: Canal Locks, Historic Homes, & An Extremely Large FishMiddletown is a small town in southwestern Ohio that author J. D. Vance wrote about growing up in as part of his novel Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. It has been referenced to as Halliday’s birthplace and the model for the virtual universe in…
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Continue reading →: Maryville, TN: Abolitionists, Kooky Castles, & Craft BeerMaryville, mumbled as “Murrahvull” in local dialect, has a rich history in anti-slavery movements. The Society of Friends presence was strong there in the 19th century, and one of their core values is opposition to slavery. This was an impressive discovery for me and I have been reading up. Check…
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Continue reading →: Show of Hands for Berea: Arts & Crafts Capital of KentuckyBerea, Kentucky was named after the biblical town of Veria in Macedonia. It was first founded as “the Glade” by an Abolitionist minister named Reverend John Gregg Fee in 1853, with financial help and land grants from the already famous Abolitionist, Cassius Clay. Berea College Two years later, Reverend Fee…
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Continue reading →: Old North Knox: Love Your Hood But Lock Your Shit UpTo give credit where it is due, I first saw what I am using as the title of this blog on the Central Flats & Taps website many years ago. Happy Holler refers to N. Central Street from where it meets Broadway, extending north toward Sharps Ridge and the Inskip…
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Continue reading →: City of Sculpture: Hamilton, OH’s Downtown Riverfront & Pyramid Hill Sculpture ParkMy first mistake in Hamilton, Ohio was to assume it was just a small and modest town. I was pleasantly surprised to roll in knowing nothing, and to learn that it is called the City of Sculpture. Hamilton is located in Southwestern Ohio about halfway between Cincinnati and Dayton, just…
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Continue reading →: Sparks Are Flying in Louisville: Edison’s Home, Butchertown, & The NuLu DistrictLouisville’s most trendy and upcoming district is called New Louisville, or NuLu for short. NuLu boundaries are east of I-65 along Main Street to Chestnut Street, and south about four blocks to Jefferson Street. It is located slightly east of downtown’s Whiskey Row/Bourbon District along a five-block stretch of East…
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