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SALTILLO – In late 2018, a group of Saltillo High School Class of 1969 graduates got together at a restaurant to start planning a 50th class reunion.

Rex Mann’s father was the kind of storyteller whose voice would make everyone in the room stop what they were doing, come and listen.  “In many o...

New orchard of chestnut trees begins on Cherokee territory CLARISSA DONNELLY-DEROVEN, Asheville Citizen Times May 23, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Imagine waking up 150 years ago, opening your window and looking out onto the Southern Appalachians. Within view would be any one of the billions of American chestnut trees that once covered the landscape. Places that are now considered coal country were chestnut country. Today, not so much. The tree is considered functionally extinct, thanks to a fungus imported in on a tree from Japan in the late 1800s. The airborne fungus, ...

In a mountaintop signing ceremony on Wednesday, April 21, The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and The American Chestnut Foundation entered into a par...

262 image Istock A day before Earth Day, retired forester Rex Mann watched as scientists signed an agreement with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina to allow for the eventual planting of genetically engineered American chestnut trees on tribal land. Mann, who has heard countless stories about the American chestnut tree that once dominated the Appalachia region, was emotional as he witnessed the signing. "My dad loved the tree... and he understood what it meant to the way of life of these people in the mountains," the 76-year-old from Kentucky said. "That way of life died ...