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Spotlighting Award Winning Stories, Inside Appalachia
Season 21
This week, we listen back to three award-winning Folkways stories from last year. First, we visit a luthier’s shop, where old musical instru…
3 years ago
Landslides, Climate Change And Gardening By The Signs, Inside Appalachia
Season 21
After last year’s flooding in Eastern Kentucky, some people had trouble getting insurance reimbursement. But it wasn’t just flood waters tha…
3 years ago
Butcher Apprentices, Carpet Artists And Cuz's BBQ, Inside Appalachia
Season 21
This week, we visit with Jerry Machen of Kingsport, Tennessee. When he first started making art from old carpets, his wife Linda wasn’t impr…
3 years, 1 month ago
Taking On The Trail And Celebrating 50 Years Of Augusta Heritage, Inside Appalachia
Season 21
This week, we step on the Appalachian Trail with one of America’s most accomplished hikers, Jennifer Pharr Davis.
We also talk to the direct…
3 years, 1 month ago
Reverse Engineering Potato Candy And Talking With Ohio’s Poet Laureate, Inside Appalachia
Family recipes are a way to connect generations, but what happens when you’ve got grandma’s recipe and it doesn’t have exact measurements?
W…
3 years, 1 month ago
Yugoslavian Fish Stew And Unsolved Mysteries, Inside Appalachia
Season 21
This week, we look back at a shocking crime near the Appalachian Trail and speak to the author of a book that re-examines the case.
We also …
3 years, 1 month ago
The Love Of Competition, Inside Appalachia
Season 21
Appalachians love to compete. Whether it’s rec league softball, a turkey calling contest or workplace chili cookoffs… Mountain folks are in …
3 years, 2 months ago
Keeping Faith Through The Floods Of Kentucky
Season 21
This week, we talk to the BBC’s Philip Reevell and reporter Kaitie Myers about a recent documentary that looks at Kentucky flood recovery th…
3 years, 2 months ago
Beans, More Beans And Kentucky's Poet Laureate
Season 21
This week, climate change is changing what grows in Appalachia, and where. Some peach varieties usually found in Georgia are moving north.
W…
3 years, 2 months ago
A Model Train Club In W.Va. Faces A Crisis
Season 21
This week, we hop a tiny train to discover the miniature wonders of a West Virginia model railroad club that now faces an uncertain future.
…3 years, 2 months ago