The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY), March 24th, 2001
Byline: Roger Alford The Associated Press
HAZARD -- They were once jokingly referred to as the state flower of Kentucky and West Virginia.
The 10-foot fiberglass satellite dishes rose from metal stems like huge dandelions on lawns in sparsely populated areas of Appalachia where cable television wasn't available.
Now becoming outdated, some of the dishes are being trashed while others are being put to imaginative new uses.
Mike Lamz saw no need to build a shingled roof on his gazebo at his rural home outside Hazard. An unused satellite dish, turned upside down, provided the perfect dome-s...
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