Whitesburg is thought for its present cut stone. Town was home to a community of Italian stonemasons UN agency captive there with the approaching of the city and Nashville Railroad in 1911-1912. Those masons left their mark on town and therefore the close county of Letcher. Town includes various building block stone retentive walls, foundations and bridge abutments, further as many buildings lined entirely in arenaceous rock force from the American state stream. Whitesburg is home to Appalshop, a multi-disciplinary arts and education center based in 1969 that produces original films, video, theater, music and spoken-word recordings, radio, photography, multimedia, and books. WMMT 88.7 FM (Mountain Community Radio), conjointly situated in Whitesburg, was based by Appalshop in 1985. Whitesburg’s major newspaper is that the Mountain Eagle. Based by Book of Nehemiah Webb in 1907, the weekly paper has been in hand by the Gish family of Letcher County since 1956. The Eagle has won various awards for its coverage of excavation and its environmental effects, education, and political corruption.
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