The Museum of Appalachia, located in Norris, Tennessee, 20 miles (32 km) north of Knoxville, is a living history museum that interprets the pioneer and...
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Appalachia (/ˌæpəˈlætʃə, -leɪtʃə, -leɪʃə/) is a geographic region located in the central and southern sections of the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern...
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Southern Appalachia Railway Museum is a railway museum headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. The Southern Appalachia Railway Museum was founded...
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John Rice Irwin (category University of Tennessee alumni)
January 16, 2022) was an American cultural historian, and founder of the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tennessee. His interest in history began at an early...
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Appalachian music (redirect from Music of Appalachia)
Appalachian music is the music of the region of Appalachia in the Eastern United States. Traditional Appalachian music is derived from various influences...
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Alex Haley (category Member of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco)
September 11, 2008. Retrieved May 10, 2023. "Museum staff members visit Alex Haley Farm", Museum of Appalachia Newsletter, June 2006. "The 1977 Pulitzer...
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cylindrical with a bulge in the middle. The name is derived from the resemblance of the stove to a fat person's pot belly. Potbelly stoves were used to heat large...
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Cas Walker (category Mayors of Knoxville, Tennessee)
The Cas Walker Farm and Home Hour — IMDB Museum of Appalachia — photos of Cas Walker in 1990 Life photograph of 1956 fracas between Walker and J.S. Cooper...
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Pall Mall, Tennessee (redirect from Valley of the Three Forks of the Wolf, Tennessee)
Information obtained from museum interpretive sign inside the Mark Twain family cabin at the Museum of Appalachia, 1 May 2009. "Family tree of Mark TWAIN". Geneastar...
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The Heartland Series (section End of production)
The Heartland Series is a series of television programs about the culture of Appalachia, produced by WBIR-TV of Knoxville, Tennessee, over the 25-year...
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at The Metropolitan Museum of Art A Fairyland of Fabrics: The Victorian Crazy Quilt at The International Quilt Study Center & Museum Modern crazy quilting:...
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Diana Jones (singer-songwriter) (category Year of birth missing (living people))
(Proper) was released in 2011. Museum of Appalachia Recordings was recorded at Peters Homestead Cabin, Museum of Appalachia, in Clinton, Tennessee in December...
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During most of the Late Cretaceous (100.5 to 66 million years ago) the eastern half of North America formed Appalachia (named for the Appalachian Mountains)...
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Anderson County, Tennessee (redirect from History of Anderson County, Tennessee)
Green McAdoo School, the Museum of Appalachia, and American Museum of Science and Energy, and the county is considered a part of the Norris Highlands. Clinton...
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Appalachian Americans (category Society of Appalachia)
or simply Appalachians, are Americans living in the geocultural area of Appalachia in the eastern United States, or their descendants. While not an official...
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of preserving art has led to the creation of museums, such as The Museum of Appalachia, which has led to a greater understanding and appreciation of Appalachian...
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helps to preserve this pioneer cultural history. In addition, the Museum of Appalachia, in Norris, hosts occasional folk music performances. In May 1925...
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Edge of Appalachia Preserve, also known as Richard and Lucile Durrell Edge of Appalachia Preserve System or simply The Edge, is a series of ten adjacent...
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Fisk metallic burial case (category History of Rhode Island)
final resting place". A Fisk coffin can be found on display at the Museum of Appalachia in Clinton, Tennessee. Stonacek, Michael. "Unearthing the past"....
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Lincoln Memorial University (redirect from Debusk College of Osteopathic Medicine)
Pete DeBusk, founder and owner of DeRoyal Industries John Rice Irwin, historian, founder of the Museum of Appalachia Maurice Natanson, American philosopher...
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Nashville Museum of Appalachia, Hall of Fame and permanent collection of Uncle Dave Macon – Norris Elvis & Hollywood Legends Museum [nl], dedicated to...
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John Marshall Clemens (category American people of Cornish descent)
in Fentress County, Tennessee, is displayed as part of the collection of the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tennessee. Payton, Philip. The Cornish Overseas...
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Norris, Tennessee (redirect from History of Norris, Tennessee)
Museum of Appalachia, founded by John Rice Irwin, is a popular attraction in Norris. Norris is a short distance from Norris Dam State Park, part of which...
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capable of burning wood fuel, often called solid fuel, and wood-derived biomass fuel, such as sawdust bricks. Generally the appliance consists of a solid...
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Uncle Dave Macon (redirect from Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train)
Discography, 1921–1942, Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum, 2004 Charles Wolfe, "Uncle Dave Macon", The Encyclopedia of Country Music: The Ultimate Guide to...
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the hundreds of episodes already produced "for as long as the viewers like them." The last episode was taped at the Museum of Appalachia in Norris on...
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likely lot of young Negroes..." (M & W.M. Little" Memphis Daily Appeal, January 6, 1857) Slave cabin on display at the Museum of Appalachia in Norris,...
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Wood fuel (redirect from Pile of wood)
forms of lumber tailings. About half of wood extracted from forests worldwide is used as fuelwood. The discovery of how to make fire for the purpose of burning...
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Gaines Preston Farm, Kingsport The Homeplace, Land Between the Lakes Museum of Appalachia, Norris Texas Barrington Living History Farm, Washington-on-the-Brazos...
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Deaths in January 2022 (category Lists of deaths in 2022)
founder of the Museum of Appalachia. Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, 76, Malian politician, president (2013–2020), prime minister (1994–2000) and president of the...
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