Guest Post: The Floods of '22
When we tell our young folks about “The Floods of ‘22,” we won’t be able to tell them how our government sent in aid to help us. We won’t...
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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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- Oct 12, 2020
Guest Post: Frankie Sue Best
Note: This essay is an excerpt from a small booklet about the life story of Frankie Sue Best, complied by Steward Caffey and Masoud...
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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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- Sep 17, 2020
Guest Post: Sustainability and Economic Growth in Appalachia
Nathan Hall has always had a connection to his home in Eastern Kentucky, and now he's working to create innovative opportunities for the...
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- Sep 7, 2020
Guest Post: From the Front Porch, 1955
Although now incorporated into the Pikeville City Limits and with access to city water, sewage, and other public amenities, in 1955,...
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- Sep 1, 2020
Guest Post: Growing Up Appalachia Proud on Island Creek
Growing up on Island Creek in Pikeville, KY, my sister and I had the best childhood ever. No, seriously, it was almost magical. For one,...
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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 25, 2020
Guest Post: The Hundred Year Flood
Anyone who lived in Pike County in 1957 can tell you a story about the great flood of that year. We lived just a few miles north of town,...
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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 10, 2020
Guest Post: My Mother at Christmas
A true story of my mom, my grandparents and a Christmas that would always be remembered. My mother, Louise King Kretzer was born in 1928....
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- Aug 9, 2020
Guest Post: Our Pet Crow (A True Story of the Williams Boys in Somerset)
[NOTE: Halleck and Jesse Fisher Williams had seven children, including four boys. The Williams boys – Eugene, Tommy, Charles, and Paul –...
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- Aug 6, 2020
Guest Post: An Appalachian Education
Smart and educated are not exactly the first words that come to mind when picturing women from Appalachia. Unfortunately, in most media...
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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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- Aug 2, 2020
Guest Post: Like Toting Water Uphill
My husband and I headed out to pick up a pizza on a rainy Saturday evening. Traveling down Frederica Street in Owensboro, Kentucky, the...
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