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Candidly narrating the region dubbed 'Trump Country' from within
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A grassroots program is responding to Charleston’s substance use epidemic, but stigma and an open police investigation are…
The post When a West Virginia County Eliminated its Needle Exchange, Experts Forewarned of an HIV Crisis. Now it’s Here. appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia.
In the weeks leading up to Election Day, America watched as tensions rose in big cities and small…
The post In Appalachia, United, We’re Not appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia.
As part of the Appalachian Youth Creators Project, we’re committed not just to young people telling their own…
The post Appalachian Youth Poetry: umbilical theory appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia.
This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. White House-appointed Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx visited the…
The post White House Task Force Doctor Stops In Lexington To Discuss College Coronavirus Cases appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia.
Appalachia has many strengths and faces many challenges. Some of those are addressed in a new book produced…
The post ‘Appalachian Fall’ Addresses Issues Facing Region appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia.
Shepherd University has named a native West Virginian to its first “storyteller-in-residence” position, with an eye on sharing…
The post Storyteller-in-Residence Will Bring Appalachian Tales to the World appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia.
Normally Robert Villamagna would be in his art studio in Wheeling, West Virginia, hammering out old metal pieces…
The post W.Va. Artist: COVID-19 Recovery Is The ‘Fight Of Your Life’ appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia.
On his family’s farm in Randolph County, West Virginia, 20-year-old Collin Waybright has a hobby that’s very different…
The post ‘Birds Can Teach Us’: A 20-Year-Old Falconer On What It Takes To Hunt With Raptors appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia.
Ginseng, goldenseal, cohosh, bloodroot, ramps – all plants native to Appalachia and all appreciated around the world for their medicinal and culinary properties. In West Virginia and other parts of Appalachia, these plants have been harvested in the wild for generations. But over-harvesting of these slow-growing plants could diminish wild populations. The West Virginia Forest […]
The post Save The Forest, Get Paid: This Appalachian Farming Initiative Shows People How appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia.
Amid the rolling hills and strip-mined mountain tops that stretch through Logan County, West Virginia is Route 10 — a newer highway that was 20 years in the making. It made road travel in southern West Virginia more accessible, but it also replaced the McDonald airfield. And like most airports in the coalfields, the McDonald […]
The post W.Va’s Southern Coalfield Airports: Where Did They Go? appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia.
Their small-town neighbors aren’t familiar with the faith. Their urban counterparts barely know they exist. As the only Jew in his elementary school other than his brother, Eli Baldwin had his mom visit class to teach his peers about Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. From a young age, Marisa Swanson was instructed to lie […]
The post Young, Rural and Jewish: Meet Teens Who Are as Diverse and Interesting as the Places They Call Home appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia.
Last year, before the COVID-19 pandemic, Matt Murphy started his first salaried job, scheduling and placing on-air ads for a state-wide commercial broadcasting company based in Charleston, West Virginia. Before landing full-time employment, Murphy worked as a substitute teacher, bartender and part-time radio announcer. But the transition to regular full-time hours has not translated into […]
The post After Coal and COVID-19, Appalachia Needs More Than a One-time Check. Universal Basic Income Could Be Next. appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia.
In a quiet neighborhood in southeast Ohio, Talcon Quinn and her 12-year-old apprentice Juniper Ballew have revived an age-old tradition with just three ingredients: a deer skin, some water and a handful of animal brains. They have transformed a hairy, fleshy animal skin into buckskin, a buttery soft material stronger than fabric. In a special […]
The post Brains and Bucks: Appalachian Women Continue Hide-Tanning Tradition appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia.
You’ve heard of drive-in movies and drive-in restaurants…But how about drive-in professional wrestling? The All Star Wrestling company out of Madison (Boone County), West Virginia, held its first drive-in event Saturday night to more easily adhere to social distancing guidelines for the coronavirus pandemic. More than 50 cars surrounded a padded ring in the middle of […]
The post Wrestlers And Fans Venture ‘Out Of The Darkness’ With Drive-In Show appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia.
Shape-note singing has deep roots in Appalachia and the American south. Popular first in 18th and 19th-century New England, shape-note singing is a tradition that relies on group participation. But what happens when groups can’t get together and sing? In a special report exploring folkways traditions, as part of the Inside Appalachia Folkways Project, Kelley […]
The post A Singing Tradition That’s Persevered Hundreds Of Years Continues During Pandemic appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia.
COVID-19 has changed many aspects of worship for people of different faiths, including religious holidays. During Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, fasting and communal meals in the evenings normally mark many of the tradition. This year, things were different, as Muslims across the globe were unable to meet in person with their friends and family. […]
The post COVID-19 Has Changed How Muslims In W.Va. Worship appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia.
As Matthew Thomas-Reid grew up in the shadows of the Appalachian mountains in North Carolina, the difference between being “queer” and “quar,” as it was pronounced in that thick, Southern dialect, was obvious to him. “Older folks would look at me and say, ‘boy, you’re quar,’ and I got that my whole life,” he recalled. […]
The post Author Matthew Thomas-Reid and the Difference Between ‘Queer’ and ‘Quar’ in Appalachia appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia.
The Roanoke Tribune has been telling its Black readers their lives matter for more than 80 years. While many newspapers have struggled to adapt to the internet, laying off reporters and editors while shrinking their coverage, the family-owned Roanoke Tribune has persisted through four generations and the destruction of their building during urban renewal. How has […]
The post This Va. Newspaper Has Been ‘Making And Recording Black History’ For 80 Years appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia.
Prison overcrowding has been quietly tolerated for decades. But the pandemic is forcing a reckoning. Jason Thompson lay awake in his dormitory bed in the Marion Correctional Institution in central Ohio, immobilized by pain, listening to the sounds of “hacking and gurgling” as the novel coronavirus passed from bunk to bunk like a game of […]
The post The Prison Was Built to Hold 1,500 Inmates. It Had Over 2,000 Coronavirus Cases. appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia.
I knew I would be a father someday. I just assumed it would happen the normal way. My wife Whitney had other ideas. She suggested that, instead of going the traditional biological route, we should become foster parents. After some long conversations, she had me onboard, too. I wrote the following essay for the Father’s […]
The post Becoming A Father: Adopting A Foster Child appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia.
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