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    Quilting: A Tradition of Appalachian Resilience
    • Apr 7

    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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    Guest Post: Learning About Appalachian Stereotypes
    • 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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    Guest Post: Kentucky Is My Fate
    • Sep 29, 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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    Guest Post: Split Dogs and Skunk Funerals
    • Aug 28, 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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    Guest Post: The Jackknife
    • Aug 27, 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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    Guest Post: A Prayer of Sounds and Silence
    • Aug 25, 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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    Guest Post: Why I Never Left Appalachia
    • Aug 17, 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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    Guest Post: Reconciling My Immigrant Roots and Appalachian Upbringing
    • Aug 13, 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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    Guest Post: Where I'm From
    • Aug 12, 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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    Guest Post: The Beauty of Appalachia
    • 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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    Hillbilly Elegy & Appalachian Representation
    • Jul 31, 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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    Combatting Stereotypes Through Cultural Traditions
    • Jul 29, 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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    Showcasing Black Appalachian History
    • Jul 28, 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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