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Oakland, Md., in the Allegheny Mountains, celebrates the season with the Autumn Glory Festival (Oct. 12 to 16). Traditional Appalachian music is featured with banjo, fiddle and mandolin competitions, along with arts and crafts, parades, a 5-km race and an appearance by Cooter's Garage Band, led by Ben Jones of Dukes of Hazzard fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Turning Over a New Leaf | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

...Hampshire The Appalachian Mountain Club maintains a network of eight huts, spaced a day's hike apart, on a 56-mile stretch of the Appalachian Trail in the White Mountain National Forest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Not Really Roughing It | 9/18/2005 | See Source »

Tomlinson, 60, a former Reader's Digest editor with a soft Appalachian drawl, tells TIME he had hoped to bring quiet change. "I worked for a year and a half inside the system to rectify" the bias issue, he says. Yet his moves--hiring a G.O.P. activist to monitor the political balance of the news show Now with Bill Moyers, bringing in CPB ombudsmen to police bias, shepherding the conservative Journal Editorial Report onto air--rankled some within and outside public broadcasting. John Lawson, president of the Association of Public Television Stations, says the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man in Sesame Strife | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

More melodic than past releases, this album sounds like Oldham hitting full stride. By all means as minimalist as his past work, his Appalachian, flannel-tinged sound is more heart-wrenching here than ever before. A worthy classic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Quick Guide to Will Oldham | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

...reaches the autumnal age of 85 this week, but in every other respect Aaron Copland seems to be basking in an Appalachian spring. To honor the quintessential American composer, public television will broadcast live on his birthday an all-Copland retrospective by the New York Philharmonic, led by Zubin Mehta and Guest Conductor Leonard Bernstein. The special performance will range from Copland's First Symphony (composed in 1928) to a newly orchestrated version of his recent piano piece, Proclamation, a span that delights the still octavely active octogenarian. "It is one of the most interesting programs of my work imaginable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 18, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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