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This year, with Earth Day occurring during the holy month of Ramadan, I want to take a closer look at what Islam says about the environment.
Ginseng “poaching,” or harvesting illegally, can be extremely lucrative if you disregard the threat of arrest, fines, and jail time.
Ginseng and I both call Appalachia home, yet, until recently, we hadn’t been properly introduced.
For generations, hundreds of “hunters” have dug the valuable roots for supplemental income.
The following hike will take you through a single trail from the HIKEArmenia resource center in Yerevan to a shepherd’s home for a cup of coffee.
I’m no wine snob, but when I was invited to Armenia to report a story for the Smithsonian’s Sidedoor podcast, I said cheers and booked my ticket.
On September 17, 1989, in the midst of ongoing research for a Folklife Festival program about the U.S. Virgin Islands, Hurricane Hugo struck.
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