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How Appalachia’s Children Highlight Region’s Best Attributes

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How Appalachia’s Children Highlight Region’s Best Attributes
Clouds breaking up after a rainy morning in the Blue Ridge Mountains on July 2, 2007. KenThomas.us/Wikimedia Commons
Salena Zito
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MOUNTAIN CITY, Georgia—Just off U.S. Highway 23, along the spectacular views of the Blue Ridge Mountains, T.J. Smith spends his days continuing the tradition of the iconic Foxfire Fund: an enterprise driven by young people whose respect for the land and culture, and understanding of the importance of preserving that culture’s stories, has persevered for more than 50 years.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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