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Jewel's Dad to Star in Reality Show

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Jewel's father may start building his own showbiz career soon -- as a reality TV star.

The Discovery channel is launching two new series, including 'Moonshiners,' which follows men who stick the 200-year-old tradition of producing the Appalachian (and illegal) alcoholic beverage, moonshine. The other, tentatively titled 'Mountain Men of Alaska,' will follow Jewel's dad, Atz Kilcher, as he lives off the land.

The show, which will premiere this summer, follows Kilcher as he hunts, fishes and does everything necessary to survive the long, cold Alaskan winter. The show will center around the Kilcher family, who have lived on the same property outside of Homer, Alaska, for three generations.

The series joins two other Alaska-themed shows on Discovery, including 'Mounted in Alaska,' about an Anchorage-based taxidermist and 'Flying Wild in Alaska,' about a family-run airline that brave the harsh elements to transport goods and passengers to some of the most remote areas.

Read Jewel's own memories of home sweet Homer, Alaska, here.

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Bruce

I care-took their homestead thirty years ago, with a coal stove, (Homer has it for free washing up on the beaches)gravity-feed water and an outhouse. Atz doesn't live that rough anymore, but might as well let him show his stuff. They've had tough cattle and Appy horses since his daddy Yule homeseaded there in 1936. Atz is a music teacher who took Jewel to sing in bars all over the state when she was a little girl, but everybody and their crazy uncle wants Alaska shows nowadays and to tell the truth, we still have a square mile per person here, unlike little-bitty states like Texas where Jewel lives now in comfort and wealth. ...and she deserves it!

March 30 2011 at 11:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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