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15  May

By: Betty Reed

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Women who make a difference

This month I urge you to read my book, Soldiers in Petticoats: Appalachian Educators, which should be ...

15  April

By: Betty Reed

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Sharing a Poem or Two

April was launched as National Poetry Month in 1996 to celebrate poetry and its role in American culture ...

15  Mar

By: Betty Reed

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A Promise to Gromer Luther

Scrounging around in a seldom used drawer, I discovered an ancient autograph book with a leather cover ...

21  Feb

By: Betty Reed

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Mary J. Rankin: Missionary

Was Mary Rankin aware that the mountaineers she ...

01  Feb

By: Betty Reed

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From the Tomato Field to the Mission Field

Attending William Jennings Bryan College brought many ...

15  Dec

By: Betty Reed

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Mary Lyon founder of Mount Holyoke college

Born on February 28, 1797, in Buckland, Massachusetts, Mary Mason Lyon founded ...

01  Dec

By: Betty Reed

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Sequoyah the son of a Virginian

In the capitol building in Washington, D.C. bronze statue of a Cherokee man named Sequoyah is on ...

15  Sep

By: Betty Reed

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Homeland Invasion!

World War II marched into East Flat Rock, North Carolina, following the Spartanburg Highway south out ...