Like Jimmy we have been missing for a long time, but we are back without the FBI digging up our farm and upsetting the poodles and labradoodles. This week our Appalachian Hoffa story -- get your very, very big CAT dozer and a couple of million dollars and I will make you famous. WOW! Five black SUVs just pulled into the driveway -- Jimmy here I come! 1

Send your comments to us at appalachianstuff@gmail.com (email or attach a MP3 file) or send a voice mail to 206.203.2456. If you do not want us to broadcast your comments -- pleas state in message. Comprehensive show notes to come with all the Doodle links and local links. The VFW Gun Show and Flea Market is the weedend of Friday, September 2 to Monday, September 5, 2005 in Hillsville, Virginia.

Almost a fadecast -- but the world has been upsidedown for several weeks for us -- sorry for the lack of a podcast! My grandfather's favorite dog story. True! Happy trails, Appalachian Stuff

Comments on Days Four and Five of the Cultural Institute of the Museum of the Cherokee.

More comments on the institute -- a lot - lot- lot - better today.

At the Cultural Institute of the Museum of the Cherokee. Recorded on an Edirol R-1.

Travel to Cherokee for a workshop at the Museum of the Cherokee, Cherokee, NC.

Parker and Charles are in Nashville, TN, the home of country music, -- so -- I had to do a podcast with music.

Songs from Garageband.com:

Already by The Spikedrivers, Columbus, Ohio

Raven's Wings by Amy Martin from Missoula, Montana.

Ryder by The Miller Brothers Bluegrass Band from Springfield, Missouri.

Interview with Don Hopkins, the curator of the Mountain Crosses Museum, Horsepasture, Virginia.

Links related to Fairy Stones (staurolite -- Iron Aluminum Silicate Hydroxide) and the regions:

Fairy Stone State Park

Staurolite Structure (Fairy Stones)

Longstreet Highroad Guide to the North Carolina Mountains by Lynda McDaniel (Standard Tale of Fairy Stones - a good story if it can be proven that it is pre-Columbian. The Cherokee seems to have had limited knowledge of Christianity before the arrival of the European-Americans.)

Patrick County Chamber of Commerce

Martinsville-Henry County Chamber of Commerce

No a fadecast - we are back - busy several weeks: new dog, graduation of our oldest, work on the kennel, etc. More on the way.