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Appalachian History Series – Little Shepherd Trail: Inspiration Mountain on the Spine of Pine Mountain If you ease your car out of the Clover Fork valley and up US 421, there is a point where the pavement breaks over the spine of Pine Mountain and a narrow road slips away along the crest. Locals call it the Little Shepherd Trail.

Abandoned Appalachia Series – Goss Park and Cupp Lake of Harlan County High along the crest of Pine Mountain, where the Little Shepherd Trail clings to the ridge above Putney, there is a quiet pull off that looks almost forgotten. A few old tables, a weathered shelter, a narrow lane down toward a small mountaintop lake. On modern maps it appears as Goss Park or Goss Park Camping Area. In tourism copy it is sometimes called a hidden gem.

Appalachian Figures Series – The Story of Ronald D. Ray of Perry, Kentucky On a ridge above Frankfort, where the wind comes hard off the Kentucky River, a granite sundial throws its shadow across a fan of stone. Each day the shadow falls on the name of a Kentuckian killed in Vietnam, timed to the anniversary of that soldier or Marine’s death.

Appalachian Figures Series – The Story of the George Sharp Davis of Perry, Kentucky On a cool October day in 1937, a coal cutter from Hazard walked into a temporary studio and sang “The Harlan County Blues” for Alan Lomax.

Appalachian Figures Series – The Story of Joseph C. Eversole from Perry, Kentucky If you stand on Graveyard Hill above downtown Hazard and look past the traffic and parking lots below, the story of Perry County’s founding families is written in stone.

Appalachian Figures Series – The Story of the Phipps Family of Knox, Kentucky Drive the back roads of Knox County and the Phipps name turns up like a recurring verse. It is etched into marble and sandstone on hillsides above Stinking Creek and Lynn Camp, tied to old farmsteads near Emanuel, and still spoken in the present tense at Old Phipps Cemetery near Gray.

Appalachian Figures Series – The Story of Sam Smith of Perry, Kentucky In the mountains around Hazard, Kentucky, the name Sam Smith shows up everywhere in the records. Nineteenth century tax lists and cemetery stones carry it. So do twentieth century rosters and modern police reports. For basketball fans in eastern Kentucky, though, Sam Smith means one man in particular.

This is the December 2025 issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users.

Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) ist heutzutage bereits ein fester Bestandteil im Alltag vieler Menschen. Doch gerade für Senior:innen stellt der Umgang mit der neuen Technologie oft eine Herausforderung dar. „Was ist KI überhaupt?“ oder „Wie funktioniert KI eigentlich?“ sind Fragen, die in der Stadtbibliothek Osnabrück immer häufiger gestellt werden.