Violins, trumpets, French horns--standard instruments for college music students. But at Denison University in Granville, Ohio classes in the music department include instruction on banjo, guitar, fiddle, and other bluegrass instruments. Denison is one of a handful of universities in the nation where students can learn to play bluegrass music. Visit Denison's campus to find out why.
Aaron Carey has been playing heavy metal and rock music for most of his life. But over the past 6 years, his style of music has changed. He’s now focusing on using his guitar to produce more folk type music that combines his Native American and Celtic heritage.
For much of the 20th century, tobacco was a profitable crop for small farms in Kentucky. But with the tobacco market shrinking and years after the government discontinued subsidies for growing it, small farmers are looking to diversify. And some of them have turned to wine. There's more potential for grapes to replace tobacco in Kentucky agriculture.
Every year, some Kentucky Farm families combine their love for traditional horse plowing with a desire to showcase the rare skills they possess for doing just that. They compete in the annual Kentucky Horse Plowing Contest, which, this year, was held last weekend on the farm of Mike Downs in Olympia. For one family from Mount Sterling in Montgomery County, Kentucky, the art of horse plowing spans three generations.
By Ann Murray, Allegheny Front
Rachel Carson may be the person most responsible for galvanizing the modern environmental movement. She was not an activist. She was a writer and scientist. Her book Silent Spring may have changed the way we see our role in the balance of nature. The Allegheny Front looks at the life and times of this quiet revolutionary from Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. George Crumb has won numerous awards for a distinguished career in composing, recording and teaching, including a 1968 Pulitizer Prize in Music. He grew up in Charleston in a house near the state capitol where the state’s Cultural Center is now located. In November, Crumb visited the Cultural Center to be inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame. It’s where he sat down with Anna Sale to talk about his distinctive work.