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Eastern Standard

Eastern Standard - October 7, 2021

By Tom Martin

Published October 7, 2021 at 7:58 AM EDT

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With John Rosenberg at Snug Hollow Farm, Estill County, Kentucky

As the legal aid service AppalReD turns 50, its founder turns 90. John Rosenberg on escaping Nazi terror, immigrating to the United States, and a lifetime spent giving legal voice to the people of the Eastern Kentucky coalfields. | What tops the agenda at this year’s SOAR Summit in Corbin? | What is cryptocurrency and how does it work? Answers from EKU finance professor Ben Woodruff | A little-known achievement of and a KET/PBS documentary about the Frontier Nursing Service

Eastern Standard

Tom Martin

Tom Martin hosts Eastern Standard, a weekly radio magazine of interviews and stories about interesting people, places, and things happening in the Commonwealth.

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