When I can’t find anything nice to say about DC–and there are those days–I tell people that it’s a great city to escape. Within a two hour drive, we have…
Celebrating in Shepherdstown & Sharpsburg
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A Visual Love Letter to Appalachia
Roger May photographs the mountains with the longing of a lost son. He left them when he was just fourteen years old. His family relocated to Raleigh. He did a…
Mountain-Made Easter Treats
Lately, I’ve been making a lot of Cadbury Cream Egg runs. I’ll be at the gym or out for errands, and Ryan will text — Can you go to CVS?…
Give a Crapalachia
You know what Appalachian literature needs? It needs more experimental prose, the kind that makes you cringe like you just saw blood gush. It needs more emotionally explosive writers who…
Quilt Squares Give Leaf Peeping a New Shape
You’ve probably seen them when you were driving down some winding state route. Maybe it was this time of year. Maybe you were cruising a little too fast. Maybe you…
Homegrown Appalachian T’s
I just learned that a member of The Revivalist’s Facebook community is making great Appalachian t-shirts. Kathy Anderson, a West Virginian native who now lives within spitting distance of the Georgia…
Arborvitae: A Poem
It’s Labor Day, and we’ve scattered to the winds. Some of you might be at the beach, others at the lake. I’m in Savannah, marveling over Spanish moss and architecture….
Mountain Momma: An Appalachian Poem
I haven’t published much poetry on The Revivalist, and there’s no excuse for that. I’m a sucker for rhythm and imagery. In fact, I like poems a lot. When I…
Obama Beat by Felon in WV County
Something’s in the air in DC, and it smells a lot like coal dust to me. Last week, Jay Rockefeller called on coal companies to stop using scare tactics and…
Rockefeller Says Coal Is Leaving “Miners in the Dust”
Last Wednesday, Senator Jay Rockefeller gave a controversial speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate. He spoke in opposition to the Inhofe Resolution, which would have disallowed emission limits…