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Eastern Standard: Railroading and Ravenna?Cherokee America?Degree Regret?Arts Coverage

WEKU | By Tom Martin

Published March 7, 2019 at 10:18 AM EST

A plan to highlight the railroading history of the Estill County town of Ravenna ? Lexington author Margaret Verble on her new book, Cherokee America ? Degree regret: second thoughts about college majors ? Details on Critical Mass III: boosting arts coverage in the Ohio Valley region ? The “what, where, and when” of this year’s Kentucky Crafted Market

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