Word: appalachian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What and For Whom? Regional Forests and Forest Policies--by Michael Rains, director, Northeaster Area State and Private Forestry, U.S. Forest Service; Arthur Cooper, head, Dept. of Forestry, North Carolina State University; Clark Binkley, dean, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Colombia; and Stephen Blackmer, director of conservation programs, Appalachian Mountain Club. KSG, Starr Auditorium...
...friend of mine, a speechwriter for Sen. Tom Harkin, asked my advice on writing a speech for the West Virginia AFL-CIO. I suggested that he discuss the history of the labor movement in West Virginia, including the famous, bloody massacre at Paint Creek. Because of my faint Appalachian lilt, my friend understood it as "Pink Creek." Only a last-minute phone call saved the senator from certain humiliation...
...Broadway dancing. By 1926 she had formed a group, which performed in New York. The masterpieces began to flow, as they would over several decades. There was a cluster of distinctively American works, such as Letter to the World, about Emily Dickinson, and the ever vernal Appalachian Spring. Though a quintessential modernist, she was attracted to doomed classical heroines: Clytemnestra, Medea, Alcestis, Phaedra...
...operation, coordinated by the New Hampshire Fishing and Game Commission, was staffed by more than 60 members of the local Forestry Service, the Appalachian Mountaineering Club and the Harvard Mountaineering and Outdoor Clubs...
...same advice applies to other lands and waters. Backpackers competing for summertime space in the famous shelters along the Appalachian Trail, from Maine to Georgia, must preregister months in advance. And it is the same for Arizona's Aravaipa Canyon, a stream-fed desert site with unique wildlife, where only 50 camping permits are granted daily...