This week #InsideAppalachia ๐, we visit Ashford-Rumble Elementary in Boone County, West Virginia with Folkways Reporter Zack Harold, where students are still playing old school games, including marbles. Tap ๐ to listen ๐ง. https://t.co/dhfrTe0ARj
This week #InsideAppalachia ๐, Host Mason Adams spoke with comics writer Andrew Aydin about Islands in the Sky, a forthcoming comics anthology about Hurricane Helene and its aftermath. Tap ๐ to listen ๐ง. https://t.co/241WC6nhxD
This week, #InsideAppalachia ๐, social distancing made shape note singing a lot harder, but a group figured out a way to continue to sing through the pandemic. Editor Kelley Libby filed this story in 2020. Tap ๐ to listen ๐ง. https://t.co/c8078OEK3n
This week, #InsideAppalachia ๐, Folkways Reporter Zack Harold brought this story in 2020 about as West Virginia tomato plant called โmortgage lifter.โ ๐ Tap ๐ to listen ๐ง. https://t.co/Xjbcm1AHvv
This week, #InsideAppalachia ๐, former WVPB videographer Chuck Kleine and Pennsylvania resident Joe Buckland recorded their experiences with having children during the pandemic. Tap ๐ to listen ๐ง. https://t.co/OEiYBawCIm
This week, #InsideAppalachia ๐, we have an encore episode about the start of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. ๐ท Click/tap the link below and listen to this episode now. ๐ง
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This week, #InsideAppalachia๐, Ella Hanshaw was a singer-songwriter who grew up and lived in West Virginia. Host Mason Adams spoke with Kelly Kerney, Hanshaw's granddaughter, about the release of "Ella Hanshawโs Black Book." Tap ๐ to listen ๐ง. https://t.co/eaUulvJ9nH
This week, #InsideAppalachia ๐, Producer Bill Lynch paid a visit to Hillbilly Hotdogs in Lesage, West Virginia. Hillbilly Hotdogs is a local institution and a tourist attraction for visitors from all over the world. ๐ญ https://t.co/2IpOdfZIAu
This week, #InsideAppalachia ๐, WVPB Reporter Wendy Welch visited a McDowell County restaurant that stepped up to help their community after flooding in February. Five months later, some businesses are still dealing with damage from the floods. https://t.co/edn4dgFCW5
This week, #InsideAppalachia ๐, we revisit a story by Folkways Reporter Connie Bailey Kitts about horse-powered farming. ๐ ๐ Tap ๐ to listen ๐ง. https://t.co/km83sZ3Pld
This week, #InsideAppalachia ๐, the music of West Virginia songwriter Ella Hanshaw. Also, a pair of potters in western North Carolina forego commercial clay to work with clay thatโs "wild." Listen now. ๐ง https://t.co/pVYz2bOeln
This week, #InsideAppalachia ๐, Associate Producer Abby Neff spoke with Michael Snyder, a photographer and filmmaker, about his new book "Alleghania: A Central Appalachian Folklore Anthology." Tap ๐ to listen ๐ง. https://t.co/RNOHWXVQCp
This week, #InsideAppalachia ๐, we remember Travis Stimeling, a WVU professor and musician who died suddenly in November 2023. Folkways Reporter Zack Harold spoke to some of Stimeling's students, friends and colleagues in 2024. Tap ๐ to listen ๐ง. https://t.co/lH075rfKsr
This week, #InsideAppalachia ๐, an international photographer turns his lens toward home. ๐ธ Also, after Hurricane Helene, whitewater rafting guides ๐ถ are adapting to diminished business and changed rivers. Listen now. ๐
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This week, #InsideAppalachia ๐, we revisit the World's Largest Teapot with WVPB's Zander Aloi, who took a trip to Chester, West Virginia in 2023 to learn the history of the roadside attraction. ๐ซ Tap ๐ to listen ๐ง. https://t.co/ytfYViY2UR
This week, #InsideAppalachia ๐, we revisit a story from 2024, when Folkways Reporter Rebecca Williams spoke with DeDe Styles in Swannanoa, North Carolina about her creation of natural dyes with weeds. ๐ฟ Tap ๐ to listen ๐ง. https://t.co/i2QQs4IjBc
This week, #InsideAppalachia ๐, we revisit this story from 2020 by Host Mason Adams who explored the Dinosaur Kingdom II with artist Mark Clineโs in Natural Bridge, Virginia. ๐ฆ. Tap ๐ to listen ๐ง. https://t.co/AxRkYgnSyX
This week, #InsideAppalachia ๐, dinos fight Civil War soldiers at a theme park throwback โ Dinosaur Kingdom II in Natural Bridge, Virginia. Also, one personโs roadside weed is anotherโs โgoldenโ treasure. So says a North Carolina fiber artist.
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This week #InsideAppalachia ๐, Host Mason Adams spent time with crisis teams in Huntington and Princeton, West Virginia who work with people in mental health crises. Tap ๐ to listen ๐ง. https://t.co/ZRYQOTE4Gg
This week #InsideAppalachia ๐, states have moved to offer resources to help with gambling addiction. News Director Eric Douglas spoke with Sheila Moran of First Choice Services, which runs the 1-800-GAMBLER helpline. Tap ๐ to listen ๐ง. https://t.co/E43Ot29A3Z