Appalachian Figures A coalfield lawyer in a national spotlight In the spring of 1938, reporters crowded into the federal courtroom at London, Kentucky.

Appalachian Figures On the House floor in Frankfort, Charles “Charlie” Siler never stopped looking like what he said he was back home: a farmer from the hills who happened to hold a seat in the state legislature. White haired, soft spoken, and rarely flashy, he spent more than two decades representing the 82nd District of Whitley and Laurel counties, after an earlier career as a decorated Army lieutenant colonel.

In the summer of 1913, a photographer clambered through the streets of Matamoros, Mexico, stepping past shattered walls and fresh graves with a camera and a pocket full of glass plates. The man who made some of the best known images of the Mexican Revolution on the Texas border was not a native of the Rio Grande Valley.

In the 1830s and 1840s, the clerk of tiny Harlan County, Kentucky, signed court papers with a practiced hand. On Revolutionary War pension files and land disputes alike, the formula appears over and over: “I, John G. Crump, clerk of the court of Harlan County, do hereby certify…” From that courthouse world on the upper Cumberland came a son who would spend his life on a very different frontier.

Appalachian Figures Dan Johnson Haley started life in a Cumberland River town best known for a courthouse square and a football field tucked against the mountain. Born at Pineville in Bell County in 1940, he grew from three-sport Panther to one of the most successful high school football coaches Kentucky has ever seen, with more than 250 wins and state title runs in Lexington, Paducah, and Bowling Green.

Appalachian Figures On summer evenings at Middlesboro Country Club, regulars still point toward certain fairways and talk about the scores that once came off that nine hole layout. For more than forty years, the course record on this little crater rim track belonged to one of their own, a Bell County kid named George Ancil Cadle.

I have been running automated curation tests for many years now, at least from before 2018. Because it has been done without funding, it has not been as nicely integrated, and depends, for example, first on the RDF generation to be integrated in the GitHub Action. So, I still run them regularly (often in the morning during breakfast). Meanwhile, the curation tests help the project to monitor and maintain the quality of the pathways.

This book is squarely at the intersection of being an objectively great thing to have in the world, and a subjectively great thing to have on my gaming shelf. I’ve been playing tabletop RPGs since I was 16, and running Dungeons &

In this segment of Archipelago, explore the recap of events since September 2025. Events in Latin America In September and October 2025, PKP participated in two events in Ecuador. First, PKP’s Publication Support Specialist Pedro López Casique participated in a hands-on workshop on the role of metadata in scholarly publishing. Together with Crossref, Pedro explored […] The post Featured Events Recap appeared first on Public Knowledge Project.

This one starts with a personal note. I’ve never blogged much about the media whirlwind that accompanied the announcement of Sauroposeidon. Rich Cifelli and I did tons of interviews, separately and together, for local and national television news, newspapers, and magazines.

Canada is positioned as a leader in diamond open access with a strong foundation, investment in open infrastructure, unique funding models, wide-spread adoption of Open Journal Systems (OJS), and a focus on what really matters to Canadian scholarly knowledge creators, mobilizers, and publishers. Canada has a longstanding, internationally recognized leadership role in scholarly communications.