Nevada: TOPGUN and My Grandma’s Legacy

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This is a sweeping view of Target B-17, which is used by the TOPGUN fighter pilot school at Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada’s Forty Mile Desert. Click the icon in the lower righthand corner of the player to expand the video. Top Gun: Maverick, the greatest...

Standing on Sacred Ground

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Thousands of years before the arrival of European colonizers to North America, Indigenous peoples carved these petroglyphs at Nevada’s Valley of Fire. Every Thanksgiving, many Native Americans observe a National Day of Mourning. I am reflecting on their...

Ghost in the Well

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Growing up in Appalachia, I explored many abandoned places across the countryside. The scariest of them all was a homestead deep in the forest. There was something at the bottom of the well. Just a child then, I was spending the night over at a friend’s house in the...

Haunted South: Beyond the Grave

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Grave monuments stand hauntingly under Spanish moss-covered live oaks at Bonaventure Cemetery in Thunderbolt, GA. The famous graveyard is near Savannah. Click the icon in the lower righthand corner of the player to expand the video. A ghostly girl in Savannah, a...

Alabama: The Mystery of the Welsh Caves

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The manmade Welsh Caves at DeSoto State Park, AL, are one of Appalachia’s most enigmatic places. Click the icon in the lower righthand corner of the player to expand the video. A little-known cave system built by man in Northeast Alabama links a medieval legend,...

That Damn Dakota Blue

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Cowboys encourage me from behind the bucking chute as the gate opens and the bull goes airborne in a rodeo arena near Wichita, Kansas. Bull riding doubles as rodeo’s most celebrated and dangerous event. This is the story of the bull that nearly killed me in South...