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WEKU | By Tom Martin
Published July 19, 2021 at 5:22 PM EDT

Life in the Peace Corps: a new book based on oral history interviews with scores of Kentuckians who have served | A Kentuckian once headed NBC. You're probably familiar with his cousin |  The business of raising sheep and goats on abandoned mine sites | Singer-songwriter Joe Pug, Duane Lundy's guest in series, "Depth of Field" 

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