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If there had been Watauga County bureaucrats running the country following the Revolutionary War, the United States would have never expanded past the Appalachians.  It’s a wonder we survived before the advent of indoor plumbing…

Eustace Conway, a resident of Boone, North Carolina who’s been featured recently on the History Channel’s series Mountain Men, is now facing the prospect of his land being condemned and control of it taken from him by the local government.  Watauga County officials are insisting that the nature school on Conway’s land isn’t up to code and is in violation of numerous health and safety regulations.  Conway believes that he’s being targeted because he advocates a more traditional “back to nature” approach to living, one which is at odds with “modern” culture and its trappings of collective expectation.  He cites that his property has been the way it is for the past 26 ...

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When it comes to North Carolina architecture, there is no more ubiquitous an example than the humble tobacco barn. You can barely drive half a mile in the rural farming areas without seeing at least one or two dotting the landscape. With some of them dating back a century and more, they once exemplified this state’s agricultural acumen like nothing else could.

And it is not without some sadness that in the modern era, most of them have fallen into disuse. Once they hummed with hard work and a handsome payoff. Now, no more. But the barns still stand: a testimony to times gone by and a tradition that many families maintained for generations.

For those reasons and more (not the least of which is the gorgeous cinematography and editing by Stewart Pittman) I can’t recommend enough that y’all check out this Buckley Report story by WGHP Fox 8 reporter ...

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Just before this past Christmas, Bob Buckley from Fox 8 WGHP interviewed me for a segment of the Emmy-winning The Buckley Report, dealing with my coming out about having bipolar disorder on this blog. Here’s the link to that first story. A couple’o weeks ago he and Fox 8 photojournalist Chris Weaver (who also has an Emmy notched on his belt!) came back and filmed a follow-up story about the direction that I’ve taken since then: the Being Bipolar series, and the video supplements that I’ve used to chronicle and document what it’s like to have a bipolar episode.

Well, it just aired on this evening’s Fox 8 News 10:00 News and lo and behold it’s already on the Fox 8 website!

Here’s the direct link to the segment.

And look! Embeddable video thingy!

 

Good job Bob and Chris! Hope that this snags y’all another ...

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Chris Knight showed his creativity in one of the first Youtube videos to go viral. But there was another, darker side that he struggled to contain.

Last week Bob Buckley from WGHP Fox 8 came to my house along with photojournalist Chris Weaver to interview me about my recent public disclosure on this blog about my having bipolar disorder. We filmed about an hour’s worth of material (and Chris got some terrific outdoor shots with his cinematography skillz :-).

The story aired last night during the Fox 8 News at 10 as a Buckley Report feature. A lot of people have told me since its broadcast that it turned out great and that hopefully it will bring encouragement to others suffering from bipolar (which, is one of the reasons why I felt led to write about it on my blog).

Here’s the story, in case you missed it last ...

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