James Bond movies are high-energy and the hero, based on the books written by Ian Fleming a former British intelligence officer, saves the day (and often the world). So, by now you must assume my share this week is about James Bond or Ian Fleming. Nah. It’s about PVB’s own – Ian Cantrell. For those… Read more »
Starting in the 1940s up into the early 1970s hundreds of thousands of Appalachians moved north. The coal business went from a manual business (digging by hand) to a mechanical process (machines dug the coal). The mechanization, along with some other economic factors, left folks unemployed and looking for jobs. They moved north to work… Read more »
All of us have lots of Fourth of July memories – fireworks, ice cream, watermelon, Tibetan Buddhist Nuns dancing to Tex-Mex music… Well, maybe the latter is not one of your 4th memories, however it is one of mine. The year was 2000 and the BCMA (Birthplace of Country Music Alliance) had been… Read more »