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...A nightjar that breeds in Britain will spend much of the rest of the year in southern Africa....
...We tended the land with eternity in mind, temporary stewards though we are. Our home overlooks what once was an ancient Roman villa estate, said to have belonged to the emperor Diocletian....
...Mountains in one of this season’s more unexpected festive shows: Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol....
...Some estimate that 40 per cent of children in some Appalachian counties are living with people other than their parents....
...The southern US state of Kentucky suffered record rainfall over July, unleashing fatal floods in Appalachian mountain towns as the phenomena of La Niña and the disruption of the jet stream contribute to...
...For people in the Mountain State, the industry is a source of both pride and identity....
...Sherrill, who has frequently taught at Penland, moved here in the ’70s; over the years he, like many before him, created his own small universe in the Appalachian semi-wild – a complex of farm-like buildings...
...The Mountain Valley Pipeline is the only significant project still in the offing....
...Many words are close to identical: beck (stream), bairn/barn (child), kirk (church), fell/fjell (mountain), dale/dal (valley)....
...Leading us is a Tuscan-based guide, Rudston Steward, and Emily FitzRoy, founder of Bellini Travel....
...But the Sierra Club, the Appalachian Mountain Club and the Natural Resources Council of Maine sued to block the line and last month won the court stay of tree-cutting on a 53-mile segment....
...A year ago, the photographer Samuel James moved from New York to a cabin in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains in southern Ohio. He arrived in May, at the beginning of firefly season....
...The southern term “good ol’ boy” originally meant folk from round here — much like the characters in The Dukes of Hazzard, the 1980s TV show....
...But 1,700km inland, on the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Tennessee, some Republicans are just as fearful about illegal immigrants, even in areas that are overwhelmingly white....
...He reports that Wilson was “never seen to smile but once, when he came to report that a sea had nearly swept his colleague, the steward, overboard”....
...The curriculum was approved by the Southern Baptist Convention, which embraces creationism....
...In the foothills of the Appalachian mountains, Platt Boyd monitors a small platoon of 12-foot long robot arms that he hopes will help revolutionise one of America’s most technology-shy industries....
...The plight of Appalachian coal owes a lot to a factor specific to the US: the flood of cheap gas unleashed by the shale revolution....
...Even allowing for transport costs and differences in quality, that is a huge disadvantage for the Appalachian mines, and another reason why Mr Trump’s promises are unlikely to be fulfilled....
...But not among the granite-hard stewards of the White Mountains, as I found at a cost of sodden clothes and screaming knees....
...Mr Adams personifies how Mrs Clinton wants to create a new Appalachian economy unbound from coal....
...The Southern Pacific (3,000 miles) The Southern Pacific is a route that encompasses a wide range of cultural as well as scenic landmarks and is home to many different regional American flavours and dialects...
...One of the most scenic stretches of the Appalachian Trail crosses the Blue Ridge Mountains, via the pass at Neels Gap....
...Back in the mountains of McDowell County, Ms McKinney worries about where she will find enough groceries to replace the donations from Walmart....
...It seems unlikely that the current steward of the brand, the French food conglomerate Danone, will make the same mistake....
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