Upper Mississippian rocks of southwestern Virginia, southern West Virginia, and eastern Kentucky

10.3133/oc38 ◽  
1949 ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 497-498

Poet and teacher Pauletta Hansel was born in Richmond, Kentucky, and grew up in several small towns in eastern Kentucky. Hansel began writing poems while still in junior high and was soon published in Appalachian literary journals including Mountain Review and Twigs. These publications brought her to the attention of the newly formed Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative (SAWC) and, through that group, to the Southern Appalachian Circuit of Antioch College in Beckley, West Virginia, which recruited her as a student when she was sixteen....


Cureus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuong Vi C Do ◽  
Sanjana Thota Kammili ◽  
Michael Reep ◽  
Lauren Wisnieski ◽  
Subramanya shyam Ganti ◽  
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Author(s):  
Gwynne Tuell Potts

George Croghan first saw the Illinois Territory in 1765. There, after he was tomahawked and marched to Vincennes and Kaskaskia, he brokered peace with Pontiac before riding to Detroit to announce peace.He returned to New York, where he worked with Johnsonto imagine a fourteenthcolony that would have comprised today’s West Virginia and eastern Kentucky had it succeeded. Viewed by rebels as a Tory and warned to abandon his Allegheny River home, he took the oath of allegiance to the new nation in Philadelphia, but nevertheless was arrested. Croghan died in extreme poverty, his life a metaphor for the British experience in the thirteen North American colonies.


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