Chow Chow: A Recipe and a Food Festival
I don’t know that it’s possible in Appalachia, but if your granny didn’t teach you how to make chow chow, we have a treat for you. The below recipe was crafted by a team of…
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CBS: Largest Underground Lake in Northern Hemisphere
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courier journal: Some pay restored for laid-off miners who’ve blocked $1 million train
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courier journal: Seeking back pay, Kentucky miners head to West Virginia
“To sit and watch my dad struggle, not knowing how he’s going to pay his water bill or his electric bill, is just devastating.” — Sasha Templeton, daughter of former Blackjewel…
courier journal: Laid-off miners block train
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knox news: Exhibit reveals Mountain Dew’s roots in hillbillies and bourbon
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Enter to Win an RV Trip Through the Smokies
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One Passage: To The Bones
Author Val Nieman is turning Appalachia lit on its head. With her novel To the Bones, she’s married horror with satire with an eco-thriller, setting it all around a West…
The Rke Times: 89-year-old builds her first banjo
It has been more fun than I thought it would be… and work. But it’s been good work. WILLIS, VIRGINIA — For just about all of her life, Rhoda Kemp has…
We Opened A Shop!
It’s no secret—Appalachia has extraordinary craftspeople. From our earliest days, when isolation forced us to make goods locally, to today, when quilts and wood carvings sell as high art, our…
Oxford American: West Virginia in Transition
For Kris and me, a ten-year age gap meant radically different experiences as queer youth in our rural county. The town of Alderson, West Virginia, is split by a smooth…