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Ellen Brown: Tips for how to handle Black Friday
Black Friday is almost two weeks away, but it’s not too early to start preparing your plan of attack for the biggest shopping day of the year.
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Trail Mix: Pancakes: The miracle cure for camping disruptions
Well, this past week I was looking down into the holler toward Webb’s Creek thinking about how I might need to seek counseling for campground rage.
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Carl Mays: Things — and people — not always what they seem
The Canadian rock band Steppenwolf rose to prominence in the late 1960s and early 70s. One of their hit songs, “Born To Be Wild,” remains somewhat of an anthem for some groups and individuals. But...
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Owning a home is a lot of work, expensive
For those of you who have been wondering and asking me about it, we did finally get the house. Who would have thought dealing with the government — we decided to give our business to Fannie Mae be...
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Trail Mix: Rose is a rose, but a turkey is really a guinea
Well, this past week I was looking down into the holler toward Webb’s Creek thinking about an animal that is intelligent, very protective of its young and was one of the first meals ever eaten on ...
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Carl Mays: Take the time to thank a veteran
Victor Hugo, author of many notable works, including “Les Miserables” and “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” wrote, “Adversity makes real men and women…”
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Fall scene at Greenbrier by G. Webb. Trail Mix: Petroglyph in the Smokies
Well, this past week I was looking down into the holler toward Webb’s Creek thinking about a modern petroglyph chiseled on a hidden boulder in the Smokies. In the event you haven’t used that word...
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Jeff Farrell: Puerto Rico a different experience
My last vacation was probably abut as close as I can get to going to a foreign country without actually leaving the United States. I went to Puerto Rico.
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Time draws near for Holiday of Hope pageant
I probably sound like a broken record, but I hope many of you are planning to participate in The Mountain Press’ first Holiday of Hope pageant to benefit Relay For Life. The Nov. 6 deadline for ...
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Are we living on information overload?
There’s a quote from Stevie Nicks (former lead singer of Fleetwood Mac) in a recent Rolling Stone magazine interview that I thought was rather profound: “Little girls think it’s necessary to put a...
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