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Project Dateline: Wisemantown

Fresh snow lightly covered the lawn of Wisemantown United Methodist Church in the Estill County community shortly before sunrise Tuesday.

WISEMANTOWN — There was Tom Bonny, the wisest of the Wisemen. And Ivan Smith, the politest one. Then there was Tim Brinegar, the first to answer his door on a cold late December morning and whose mother had to be called on to explain why the lamb...

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Project Dateline: Happy Landing might not be a town, but its residents are thankful to be there

HAPPY LANDING — In American history, there is probably no happier landing than the Pilgrims' Cape Cod arrival 400 years ago, a landfall made by those in the Mayflower, a band who was probably dead tired after 66 days and 2,750 miles of ocean, 600 miles of that off course.
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A town of Awe

AWE — The town itself is just plain elusive.
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Poring over the map in 'Rain'

RAIN — is coming down in bushel barrels full. Then it slacks off and it's just spitting, then it starts to come again and the rivulets crisscross Ky. 1809 like they've got a mind to start a canyon to rival the Grand, given enough time.
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DRESSEN: Some folks call this flavorful community Upper Sunshine

Dressen hangs on the very close fringe of Harlan, just off Ky. 421, just after the railroad tracks and just before the exit to Ky. 72. It's so minor yet so flavorful a community that it is sometimes referred to as Upper Sunshine. That's because Sunshine is the larger suburb and this collection of...