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...Indian lands. Wherever he goes, he reports on natural marvels-enchanting springs, crystal lakes, whole hillsides blazing with azaleas, potentially rich farm lands -that are sure to entice others to brave the wilds and tame them too. Bartram himself is next going into the largely unexplored territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi that is controlled by the Creek and Choctaw Indian tribes. He looks forward to the wonders-and the solace -that he will surely continue to find in America's vast wilderness...
...documentaries. The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936) and The River (1937). Thomson borrowed hymns ("the doxology") and cowboy songs (The Streets of Laredo) and added his own folk-style tunes in The Plow. These two scores were Aaron Copland's inspiration for several famous ballet scores, including Appalachian Spring...
...been located, concentrations of methane-and fears of yet another explosion-prevented their immediate removal. Funerals for men who died in the first explosion were going on when the second occurred. Since then, church bells have tolled continuously in memorial services throughout Letcher and Harlan counties, the two impoverished Appalachian areas steeped in coal-mining history...
...practice is not on Manhattan's Park Avenue or in some well-heeled suburb but in the decaying downtown area of Aurora, an industrial center (pop. 79,000) in northern Illinois. There, for at least 3½ days a week, Balthazar ministers to Aurora's poor-Mexicans, Appalachian whites, Indians and blacks. Indeed, anyone with real or imagined ailments is welcomed at his storefront clinic for medical care- all free of charge...
...countryside. Demographer Peter Morrison of the Rand Corp. has produced statistics showing that people of all ages-no longer just young hippies-are moving from cities and suburbs to rural areas of the Dakotas, Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, Vermont, upper Michigan, the Sierra foothills and the long-depressed Appalachian regions that are benefiting from the coal boom...