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Eastern Standard

Eastern Standard for October 8, 2020

WEKU | By Tom Martin

Published October 8, 2020 at 11:06 AM EDT

Not letting a pandemic get in the way, the Kentucky Book Festival is “on” - virtually. | A mini book festival of our own features poet Lynell Edwards; novelists Wesley Browne and Karen Salyer McElmurray; and, the new non-fiction from the Ohio Valley Resource, documenting views of America from the perspectives of the coal-mining communities of Appalachian Kentucky

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