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A more than 70-year effort to “control” America’s largest river basin swamp is threatening the Cajun culture that thrives on it
In Charleston, South Carolina, shipwrights re-create a 19th-century schooner
In a case that could reveal the villain behind the Irish Potato Famine, the gumshoe is a plant scientist
Batteaux were once the lifeblood of Virginia commerce; now locals celebrate those bygone days
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Arizona Naturalist Pinau Merlin celebrates life in the desert by keeping a close eye on it
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Most of the 256 shelters on the Appalachian trail are pretty rough. Then there’s the Fontana Hilton
Tiny Smith Island has three churches but only one pastor, who gets around by boat and Golf Cart
A pair of biologists on Cumberland Island save the remains of dead sea critters for others to study
At a seasonal herring shack in North Carolina, the house specialty evokes memories of an earlier era
And the shag, a stylish Southern dance, was born and reborn along the Carolina coast