Quilting: A Tradition of Appalachian Resilience
Traci Fields Tackett, 54, and Holly Fields Collins, 102, are two generations of women who are passionate about making quilts. Both born...
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- Dec 2, 2020
Guest Post: Learning About Appalachian Stereotypes
In third grade, we had a student teacher that taught historical facts and timelines of Johnson Co. (our home county) and she taught...
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- Sep 28, 2020
Guest Post: Kentucky Is My Fate
Shortly after I moved to South Carolina in 2018, I made a Spotify playlist filled with songs either about Kentucky or by Kentucky...
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- Aug 27, 2020
Guest Post: Split Dogs and Skunk Funerals
My husband told me about a dog he had when he was a boy. The dog had Beagle ears and body with a Chihuahua head, legs and tail. It yapped...
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- Aug 26, 2020
Guest Post: The Jackknife
No one owned a pocket knife in the mountains of Appalachia; almost every man and boy carried a jackknife. It was a youngster’s rite of...
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- Aug 24, 2020
Guest Post: A Prayer of Sounds and Silence
Tonight I sat alone in church listening for His voice A tranquility interrupted by the wailing horn of a northbound coal train winding...
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- Aug 16, 2020
Guest Post: Why I Never Left Appalachia
From the editor: Tipper has been writing about all things Appalachian on her blog Blind Pig and the Acorn since 2008 and recently started...
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- Aug 12, 2020
Guest Post: Reconciling My Immigrant Roots and Appalachian Upbringing
From the editor: This essay was originally published by Krishna on Medium in 2019. Most holidays, I go home to a small town nestled in...
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- Aug 11, 2020
Guest Post: Where I'm From
I am from a big city with country roots. From a father with an 8th grade education and a mother who never worked outside our home. I am...
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- Aug 4, 2020
Guest Post: The Beauty of Appalachia
There has always been a perplexing quality about Appalachia. Simultaneously, one is told to leave the land, while others never leave. For...
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- Jul 30, 2020
Hillbilly Elegy & Appalachian Representation
Seated beside the Hillbilly Bear in the Pikeville, KY city park, Dr. Jordan Laney, Postdoctoral Fellow at Virginia Tech, explains why she...
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- Jul 28, 2020
Combatting Stereotypes Through Cultural Traditions
From her garden nestled in a holler in Pikeville, KY, Lauren May (creator of the cooking blog Must Love Herbs) discusses how she came...
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- Jul 27, 2020
Showcasing Black Appalachian History
From the East Tennessee PBS studio in Knoxville, TN, William Isom II (Director of Black in Appalachia) and Dr. Enkeshi El-Amin...
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