Appalachian Scribe (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008
The latest episode of Podcast Appalachia is available for download! In this episode I provide a biography of frontiersman Daniel Boone, an early explorer of Appalachia and one of the most famous people in American history. You can find Podcast Appalachia on iTunes, or you can listen to this episode directly here. A transcript is [...]
The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
The bra and panties stand for women's rights. Davy Crockett shaking hands with Daniel Boone symbolizes how we need to put aside our differences. The skull and crossbones, in the lower right corner, stands for pirates, and all that they have given us. The angel holding the sword represents how . . .
Ralph Long (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... hunting, off-roading and horseback riding. “Here in Kentucky we can offer wilderness, with the Daniel Boone National Forest, the Cumberland Mountains, the Red River Gorge and a set of lakes and rivers unmatched by any other state,” said Gov. Beshear . Kentucky's Adventure Tourism initiative allows the state to enter into agreements with private property owners for the public use of...
STLtoday.com Top News Headlines (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
May 6, 2008--Boats search for a missing hunter in the swirling waters of the Centaur Chute off of the Missouri River.(David Carson/P-D)Divers will search the Missouri River today, upstream from the Daniel Boone Bridge, for the body of a turkey hunter who fell into the swirling waters when his canoe capsized Tuesday.One man was safe after he clung to the canoe, which overturned before...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Slade, Kentucky, United States Friday afternoon we arrived in Slade, Kentucky, home to the Daniel Boone National Forest. We were armed with our trail map, took a quick moment to look it over and decided to start out on the Hidden Arch Trail to see where it would take us. We were loaded down and ready to go. I only had feelings of excitement...
Counago & Spaves (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
... problems solved for him. But even a docile and contented hostage was too much for Governor Boggs. Daniel Boone wouldn't have stood for it, and neither would he. He ordered out the militia, and Governor Lucas did the same. It was December, snowy, and bitterly cold. Both sides began to arm for battle. The alarmed Governor Lucas prophesied, wrongly as it turned out, that the dispute...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
... Restaurants, which serves more than a half-million folks at the track during Derby week. "This is Daniel Boone stuff we're talking about."Like a lot of people who prepare burgoo, Doyle is passionate about his blend. He puts okra and beans in there, others don't."It's kind of like your mom's spaghetti sauce," he told me. "You like it the way your mom made it."Doyle says many newcomers...
Writing with a Broken Tusk (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
... colonization, and of the responses of the colonized, can and should be compared across continents. Daniel Boone’s pressing of the Proclamation Line is another example, placed side by side with Clive’s declaration, “We must indeed become Nabobs ourselves.” And the economics of it--why don't we teach that to children? Or to more adults, for that matter. Aronson lays bare the story of...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
READING, Pa., April 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An estimated 1,500 Revolutionary War re-enactors are expected to gather next month at the Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission's Daniel Bo...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
1,500 Re-enactors Expected at Daniel Boone Homestead in mid-May READING, Pa., April 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An estimated 1,500 Revolutionary War re-enactors are expected to gather next month at the Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission's Daniel Boone Homestead for a weekend encampment. James A. Lewars, site administrator of the 579-acre historic site in Birdsboro...
The Evangelical Spectator (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
How Grits Saved The South Davy Crockett ate grits every day of his life. So did Daniel Boone, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Mathew, Mark, Luke, John, Caesar, Cleopatra, Saint Augustine, Ghandi, and near everybody that was born south of the Mason-Dixon line. Which is a whole truckload of folks. Southern food is heavenly. Tastes better than anything. A bowl of bliss. One spoonful of...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
... to help landowners with processing voluntary conservation easements to protect open space. --The Daniel Boone Visitor Center in Duffield received $200,000 for operating costs.
From On High (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
... couldn't resist sticking a couple back in. $5 million for Civil War sites? $200,000 for the Daniel Boone Visitors Center? That's a few million dollars that could go to transportation or something else useful. ( link ) Remember this next time the man starts boo-hooing over the plight of the northern Virginia commuter.
Jurisdynamics (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Wadih Ghsoubi, Foggy Morn, Red River Gorge, Daniel Boone National Forest (n.d.) Marie Reilly of Red Lion Reports recently passed a blogging milestone . So did Jurisdynamics and MoneyLaw . The occasion warrants a modest celebration, at the very point where Marie's world and mine — whether expressed in legal, geographic, or intellectual terms — intersect. I begin with geography, which is...
From On High (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
... of Representative Rick Boucher, a Democrat from the southwestern Virginia mountains that Daniel Boone traversed on the way to Kentucky. Mr. Boucher secured $750,000 of highway money for the "construction of horse trails and assorted facilities" in Jefferson National Forest. When I expressed doubts to Mr. Boucher that these new horse trails would ease traffic on the roads, he replied,...
