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Why Appalachia?
By Appalachian Woodworker and English Teacher, Brian R. Melton. You can’t fault ignorance of the unlearned, so let me educate those who still think Appalachia needs an elegy. Let me discuss…
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Self-Defined Faith: What Religion Says About Appalachian Cultural Identity
The Appalachian region, rooted in millennia of unique and divergent folklore and religion, carries on the tradition of individualistic faith today. In our last issue, one question that loomed above…
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Camp Toccoa and Its Dazzling Legacy
This gate is a welcoming glimpse of the Camp Toccoa at Currahee Project, a mission started about 10 years ago to memorialize the 5,000 “Toccoa Men” who trained at this…
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What It’s Like Living With Cancer In Appalachia
Imagine hiking in the mountains alone and there’s an accident no one anticipated. A random dead tree falls and hits you, sending you down a brushy slope. You are very…
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Mayoral Leadership Study Results
How do we define prosperity? Is it the inscrutable point of the stock exchange? Is it the national wealth through the gross domestic product? Perhaps, however, these metrics rarely take…
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Jo Ann’s Corner
Good morning. Welcome to Jo Ann's Virtual Café 2021. Come on in and help yourself to a breakfast beverage. Let’s talk. We have a treat for you today. We’re featuring…
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Appalachia Behind Bars: An interview with Julie Gautreau, Lawyer and Criminal Rights Advocate
Q: How has the law been used to discriminate against impoverished people and African Americans? A: I think of law in general as a system of preserving and protecting power…
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The Heartland Series: Vignettes of Popular History in Appalachia
Photo Credit WBIR Do you ever have an urge to scratch your 80s media fix? During the mid-1980s across the United States, there was great concern with preserving rapidly dying…
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Appalachia
The question lingers, booms: what is someone from Nashville doing, claiming to represent Appalachia? It would be all too easy to content myself with Ronald Eller's attempt to universalize Appalachia…