The first popular Appalachian writer lived and wrote in his adopted hometown of Big Stone Gap. His works became the biggest selling books of his time and gave birth to the official Virginia state outdoor drama, “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” which is performed every summer in that southwest Virginia town. Today we tell the story of John Fox Jr.
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