The 'Lost Tribe' of Appalachia
...for information about their heritage.
The Melungeons make up about 50,000 of the 22 million people who live in the mountainous region just inside the eastern seaboard, most of them in the southern edge of Appalachia in the area where Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky meet.
There seem to be as many st......more...Girding Up For the Power Grid
...nutes, one of the crowning achievements of industrial engineering - the computer-controlled power grid of the 80,000-square-mile Canada-United States Eastern Interconnection area - was toast.
For the first time in decades, night held dominion over the cities of the Northeast, which were now without ......more... Narrowing Appalachia's Divide
Narrowing Appalachia's Divide
A new program focuses on arming the rural poor of eastern Kentucky with technology skills. Families will get computers and Net access for free, and help build a virtual encyclopedia. By Katie Dean.
by Katie Dean
3:00 a.m. May 26, 2000 PDT
For many, the debate over the d...more... |