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EPISODE · Jun 28, 2016 · 8 MIN

Tarzan of Appalachia

from Stories of Appalachia · host Steve Gilly, Rod Mullins

During the Great Depression, a man lived in West Virginia much as he imagined his literary hero Tarzan would have lived, had Tarzan been in the wilds of Appalachia instead of the jungles of Africa. Today, Rod and Steve tell the story of the original “hippie,” Orval Elijah Brown of Clay County, long hair, beard, […]

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