With Good Reason

Coming Home to Big Stone Gap


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Best-selling author Adriana Trigiani talks about life growing up in the small Appalachian town of Big Stone Gap. Her new movie, Big Stone Gap, based on her novel of the same name, is out this winter. Plus: Hoping to revitalize the town of Appalachia, Virginia, Tessa McCoy and Meredith McCool looked to the past by collecting oral histories of old-timers."
Later in the show: What are the biggest challenges facing American society today? And how can we solve them? Bro Adams, the new chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, says that science and technology can’t solve those challenges—but the humanities can. Plus: Most of us know the history of the battle at Gettysburg, but Jennifer Murray tells the story of what happened to the battlefield after the fighting stopped.
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