| 单词 | Appalachia |
| 例句 | District 12 was in a region known is Appalachia. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Inbreeding is common in Appalachia, as are genetic deformities, but Nurse Rosalee noticed nothing unusual about me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They were filmmakers from New York City, and they’d been sent to Welch as part of a government program to bring cultural uplift to rural Appalachia. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Many of our most popular American children’s songs hail from centuries of ballads, hymns, popular and folk music of early New Englanders, Scottish, and English settlers inhabiting Appalachia, and African and European descendants. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Foxfire discussed how people did things in the old days of Appalachia. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “Didn’t you hear Momma say this was Appalachia?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z As we looked out of the windows Momma checked her notebook, then announced, “This is the Appalachia Mountains. We’re over six thousand feet above sea level, this is higher than we’ve ever been before.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z So why was Appalachia the way it was? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z In regions like Appalachia, wild mushroom hunting — particularly for morels — remains part of the rural foodways. The Mushrooms Will Survive Us 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z Poor folks in Appalachia in those company mining towns danced and sung. "We in America have actual fascists marching in the streets": Ed Brubaker on releasing art right now 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z There are thousands of them living in Appalachia and similar. Letters: Readers on SAT prep, national anthems and au pairs 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z He remains a voice for the disenfranchised - the poor of Appalachia and the Mississippi Delta and victims of racism and greed. Pete Seeger enters 9th decade as an activist 2011-10-24T09:16:03Z With her childlike soprano voice, Newsom zealously works her harp, trafficking in a strange admixture of Baroque Appalachia—yup, you read that last bit right. The enigmatic genius of Joanna Newsom 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z The "Hillbilly Elegy" book presents the white, male, working-class story of Appalachia as the definitive one. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z What vegetarian foods can I find in Appalachia that I really love and I'm excited about? Growing up in "Another Appalachia" is more relatable than you think: "I keep finding myself here " 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z But McClanahan has been careful to underscore that his portrayals of Appalachia and West Virginia have always been his own takes on the region. The mystique of Daniel Johnston: “There’s something ancient in all of this — the notion of the eccentric” 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z One of the most prevalent is the idea that the way the people of Appalachia speak — the so-called Appalachian dialect — is somehow incorrect or malformed. Combatting stereotypes about Appalachian dialects 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z A lot of people who are expats from Appalachia, the thing that's interesting is we all know that feeling of home that we had — but that doesn't mean it exists anymore, either. Growing up in "Another Appalachia" is more relatable than you think: "I keep finding myself here " 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z The rest of the world likes to talk about rural poverty and the Appalachia where Burrow grew up in a certain way. Why is Joe Burrow so great? Because he’s from Appalachia 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z There were singers, guitarists and the return of the opening act: the Lonesome Trio, which writes old-timey songs with a droll contemporary perspective and titles like “Appalachia Apologia.” Michael Daves Brings Bluegrass to the Bell House 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Miss Julie comes to contemporary Appalachia with all her sexual and psychological baggage in tow in “Cattywampus,” a raw and raucous updating of August Strindberg’s classic, written and directed by Robert Cucuzza. | 'Cattywampus': ?Cattywampus? at Incubator Arts Project - Review 2012-01-12T23:37:24Z “It’s not me wearing my heart on my sleeve. It’s my plan for Appalachia.” The next big thing in American regional cooking: Humble Appalachia 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z I rang up David Woodard, the executive director for the Heart of Appalachia Tourism Authority, which includes seven counties and Norton, a small independent town, in the westernmost slice of the state. A restless Virginia resident finds sights that evoke the West within driving distance 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Simpson, 41, moved away from this stretch of Appalachia when he was 7, but its ethic and spirit remain bone-deep in him. Sturgill Simpson Leaves His Old Sound (and the Spotlight) in the Rear View 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Appalachia is among the most discussed and written-about geographies in the United States. What the People of Appalachia Want 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z The pictures in his Leica Store show, “Lost Nation,” are black-and-white, which links them to well-known historical images of the Dust Bowl and Appalachia. Review | In the galleries: Zenith celebrates 40 years with two exhibitions in two spaces 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Voters in the country’s old mining regions of Appalachia rewarded these promises with overwhelming electoral support. Mine wars: The struggle for coal miners’ health care and pension benefits comes to a head 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z Subsistence farming isn’t a relic of the past but a way of life made nearly impossible in Appalachia, not because of historical progress but because of dispossession. What the People of Appalachia Want 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Chefs’ gussied-up interpretations of the classics are even more thrilling, because they prove that neither Appalachia nor its food is trapped in time. ‘Victuals,’ reviewed: A love letter to Appalachia, with recipes 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z He seems at home in the haunted hills of Appalachia, where past and present become indistinguishable, even if his actors are not always such comfortable visitors. Theater Review: From Elegiac Appalachian Hollers to New Terrain 2011-05-30T21:33:12Z The outcry doesn’t exist because for many people the words “Appalachia” and “poverty” are synonymous. Deliver me from “Deliverance”: Finally, a Hollywood movie gets Appalachian people right 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Much of “Ramp Hollow” will be familiar to those interested in the history of Appalachia and its leading analyses. What the People of Appalachia Want 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z The crowd, while overwhelmingly White, included some African Americans, reflecting their small number in the heart of Appalachia. Black voters in West Virginia are tired of being invisible 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z In Appalachia, many of us prioritize home and kin. Queering Appalachia — finding chosen families online in an unforgiving landscape 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z And thanks to Queer Appalachia’s upcoming online recovery resource for queer and trans people in Appalachia and the south, soon you’ll be able to find people like yourself to lean on for support anywhere, anytime. Queering Appalachia — finding chosen families online in an unforgiving landscape 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z People all over the world think they know something about Appalachia because they’ve seen “Deliverance,” which is a well-made but terribly stereotypical thriller portraying hillbillies as soulless, illiterate and mean-hearted villains. Deliver me from “Deliverance”: Finally, a Hollywood movie gets Appalachian people right 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z For many visitors intent on hiking, biking or rock-climbing, the communities of Appalachia, with their rich folk culture and rugged individualism fail to register. West Virginia’s Small-Town Revival 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z In these discussions of Appalachia, the range of attitudes, experiences and openness to alternative political perspectives held by the people living there is often lost. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z "Appalachian Spring," which followed, has nothing to do with Appalachia. The Philharmonic dances through Bach and bluegrass at the Bowl 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z It was first grown in Appalachia by the Cherokee; the tribe taught new settlers how to soak the kernels in water mixed with ash, then grind it to make a dough. The next big thing in American regional cooking: Humble Appalachia 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z The first season of "America Outdoors" journeys through six such spots, including Death Valley, the North Carolina coast, and places deep within Idaho, Minnesota, and Appalachia. Baratunde Thurston is making America love the outdoors again: "There's history in nature for us" 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z This has resulted in extensive overharvesting of the wild variety in Appalachia. With a focus on food sovereignty, rural Appalachian Ohio is rebounding 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z For much of my childhood, I lived in a small, mostly white town along Appalachia, in the Rust Belt. Obama’s Parting Gift: The Power Not to Fear White Racism 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z It has a lot of complicated roots in Appalachia as a national service program that basically was started to respond to poverty in Appalachia. "The Third Rainbow Girl" author on the true story of a double murder she didn't set out to write 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Perhaps fittingly, the movie was not filmed in Appalachia, but in central Georgia, so you don't even see many of those hills Mamaw waxes poetically about. Don't just laugh at "Hillbilly Elegy" — its damaging myths still need to be countered 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z It's such an interesting thing because found family is something we associate so deeply with queerness in this country, but it also, for me, is so present as someone who grew up in Appalachia. Growing up in "Another Appalachia" is more relatable than you think: "I keep finding myself here " 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Though just 10 miles from the Maryland border, its surroundings match many of the stereotypes of Appalachia: abandoned gas stations, junkyards, the unsightly, fuming smokestacks of the coal-fired Mount Storm power station. West Virginia’s Small-Town Revival 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z What do you think other filmmakers or writers get wrong about West Virginia and Appalachia? A Director Looks for Beauty in Her Home’s Opioid Struggle 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z She started her research by looking at photographs of working-class people from the turn-of-the-19th century to the 1960s in Appalachia and other places in America, particularly images by Lewis Hine and Mike Disfarmer. 'Hunger Games' fashions come to fiery life 2012-03-21T00:41:50Z Appalachia may be the legal-moonshine capital, but Copper Run Distillery in Walnut Shade, Mo., claims to be the Ozarks’ lone licensed producer. Frugal Traveler: Music and Moonshine in the Mellow Ozarks 2013-08-01T17:02:55Z Once someone has helped you, you learn to offer help to others, however you can in Appalachia. Why is Joe Burrow so great? Because he’s from Appalachia 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z I'm trying to get at a different thing, which is not necessarily the experience of being an insider there, but the experience of being someone who has moved through and has connected with Appalachia. "The Third Rainbow Girl" author on the true story of a double murder she didn't set out to write 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z And yet, I think New England has so much to learn from Appalachia. Growing up in "Another Appalachia" is more relatable than you think: "I keep finding myself here " 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z A graduate of Harvard Law School, he began his career as a lawyer in Morehead, Ky., representing low-income individuals and community groups in Appalachia. Cuddling Once a Day. That Is Their Rule. 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z “Victuals” takes readers on the road to explore modern Appalachia. ‘Victuals,’ reviewed: A love letter to Appalachia, with recipes 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z The comments left across the Appalachian region read like anonymously scrawled love notes to their lovers, to Appalachia itself, and for their own love of Appalachia. Queering Appalachia — finding chosen families online in an unforgiving landscape 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z This, after all, is the role music has played in Appalachia for generations. ‘Coal Country’ Review: Songs and Stories in a Disaster’s Aftermath 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Absent are the corroded expressions so familiar in works that perpetrate what the Virginia-born photographer and filmmaker Kate Fowler calls the “mediated extraction” of Appalachia. Another Side of Appalachia 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z We have Appalachia fatigue, this person based in New York advised, urging me instead to focus on the climate change storyline in the book. Don't just laugh at "Hillbilly Elegy" — its damaging myths still need to be countered 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Before timber, before coal, salt was the major industry in central Appalachia. The next big thing in American regional cooking: Humble Appalachia 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Moreover, Appalachia is framed as facing those problems much more intensely because it is imagined as being monocultural, all white and all working class. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Rogovin chronicled the lives of the urban poor and working classes in Buffalo, Appalachia, and elsewhere in the world for over 50 years. Milton Rogovin, Photographer, Dies at 101 2011-01-18T20:45:02Z She knew I was a New York Times national correspondent based in Louisville, Ky., covering Appalachia. ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’: Bringing Loretta Lynn’s Story to Life 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z In my reading of the book, that ties into the story that America tells itself about Appalachia, and tells Appalachia about itself. "The Third Rainbow Girl" author on the true story of a double murder she didn't set out to write 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z If there’s a cultural ambassador to Appalachia at this moment, it very well may be West Virginian writer Scott McClanahan. The mystique of Daniel Johnston: “There’s something ancient in all of this — the notion of the eccentric” 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z You would think that Appalachia had the market cornered on poor character. Mercy and grace: Reclaiming the family home lost to my father's addiction 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z “Enemy” is a blunt, stomping, bitter breakup song — “I’d rather be your enemy/Than fade away like a childhood friend” — with a hint of Appalachia in its modal melody. Lou Reed’s Folky Velvet Underground Demo, and 9 More New Songs 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z If the world is smaller than ever now, why do you think mainstream depictions of the rural South and Appalachia continue to be so miscast? Can a literary thriller heal divides? Silas House’s “Southernmost” isn’t preaching to eit... 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z If you are looking for something a bit more authentic, consider an excursion to Virginia’s Crooked Road, an officially designated path of Appalachia, full of music and dance venues. In Transit Blog: Q&A: Holiday Vacation for a Family of Four 2011-11-01T14:31:29Z Athens, Ohio was—and still is—home to a university nestled in the heart of Appalachia. On LGBTQ allies and angels, and Stonewall at 50 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Terms like “Appalachia” and “Rust Belt” are not likely to be embraced by the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce. The smartest route to Pittsburgh: The one with no shortcuts 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z In 1998, I founded the West Virginia Dialect Project to conduct research on the different and changing dialects of West Virginia, a state wholly contained within Appalachia. Combatting stereotypes about Appalachian dialects 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Ms. Lynn’s voice is pure Appalachia, with openhearted respect in religious songs and a touch of swing on tunes like “Blue Christmas.” Are You Listenin’? New Holiday Albums From Sarah McLachlan and Others 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Rather than accepting the single story of Appalachia as white and poor, Walker wrote a new one, forging a path for Black Appalachian artists. How Black poets and writers gave a voice to "Affrilachia" 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z The tales this weekend include ones from Appalachia, the Caribbean and Denmark. Spare Times for Children Listings for July 1-7 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z My son and I left Appalachia, the first summer of the pandemic. Why is Joe Burrow so great? Because he’s from Appalachia 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z By doing that, all the other stories about Appalachia are erased. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z Part one, on diabetes in Appalachia, can be read here. Healthcare in Appalachia: Dying for a ride 2012-08-09T11:45:00Z Reddit is a modern-day canary in the coal mine for the people of Appalachia – a region of the United States being disproportionately affected by the opioid epidemic. How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addicts in the US 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z Folk audiences, however, regarded Mr. Watson as a direct conduit to the roots music of Appalachia, which he performed with conviction. Doc Watson, Folk Musician, Dies at 89 2012-05-30T00:33:31Z We were following the songs that had blown this way and that like so many dandelion seeds across the Blue Ridge Mountains and through the foothills of Appalachia. On Virginia?s Crooked Road, Music Lights the Way 2011-05-20T19:29:44Z People in Appalachia don’t need an elegy to be written for them. In ‘Desperate,’ a Reporter Dives Deep Into Dirty Water 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z During our 2½ years here in Southern Appalachia, my partner and I have seen nary a deer, not even while hiking in the nearby Pisgah National Forest. Review | Deep in the heart of Virginia, it’s man vs. bear 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Vance also suggests that his family – in both its best and worst manifestations – is representative of Appalachia. The chattering classes got the "Hillbilly Elegy" book wrong—and they’re getting the movie wrong, too 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z On a Friday evening last spring, Zack Woodruff picked up two college friends and drove seven hours down Interstate 65: through Indianapolis, bourbon country and the rolling hills of Appalachia. Social Climbing Has a Whole New Meaning 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Then he gets a call: His abusive father has died, compelling him to return with his wife and children to a remote pocket of Appalachia he was thrilled to escape. ‘Spell’ Review: Occult Reprogramming 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z That might simply be a matter of palette, as with Adolf Sehring’s “Autumn Appalachia,” which renders a farm in dark fall colors. In the galleries: From destruction, a call for transformation 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z EK: And the accent that Shakespeare himself spoke is said to be most closely preserved in Appalachia! Are British actors the world's best? 2010-06-19T23:14:00Z Retana said he was cautioned about riding through Appalachia because he’s Latino. How to take an overnight trip with your two-wheeled vehicle 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Many schools have also welcomed garden and nutrition programming to their curriculum from area nonprofits like Community Food Initiatives and Live Healthy Appalachia. With a focus on food sovereignty, rural Appalachian Ohio is rebounding 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z And this particularly gets attached to those who live in Appalachia, the hillbilly. The deep roots of “white trash” in America: “Not only are we not a post-racial society, we are certainly not a post-class society” 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z “Outsiders”: A present-day drama set in Appalachia centered on the conflict between an isolated society in the mountains, and the encroaching local town. What You Should Watch This Week if You’re Missing a Favorite Show 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Rash knows his corner of Appalachia the way my dad and uncle knew their mountains. ‘Above the Waterfall’ review: A powerful tale of modern Appalachia 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z And American country music traces roots to the Scots-Irish immigrants who settled the hills of Appalachia, like Patty Griffin's family. U.S. country star Patty Griffin gets Londoners stomping 2013-11-18T13:57:30Z Do you hail from one of the economic craters of the exurban Midwest and Appalachia, possess a college degree, and have a socio-politico-economic theory to sling? Is there a cure for Rust Belt rhetoric? This witty little novel might be a start. 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Ray Price, the country singer who brought country music out of Appalachia by adding strings, died at 87 this week. Joan Fontaine: The Oscar-Winning Star and Her Notorious Sister Act 2013-12-25T18:53:48Z At the same time, Les never for a moment can afford to forget that, in rural Appalachia, “everyone’s connected, if not by blood, then in some other way.” ‘Above the Waterfall’ review: A powerful tale of modern Appalachia 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z The “What’s the Matter with Appalachia?” piece, written by disapproving outsiders with little knowledge of the region’s politics or history, is back, once more, with feeling. Liberal shaming of Appalachia: Inside the media elite’s obsession with the “hillbilly problem” 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z The magical realism of “Hummingbird” and its uncomplicated romance with rural America are tempered by Moore’s “Holler of the Fireflies,” also set in Appalachia. Magic Mountains: Novels of Appalachia From Natalie Lloyd and David Barclay Moore 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z In the two years after the 2016 release of “Hillbilly Elegy,” his bestselling memoir of growing up in Appalachia, Vance visited at least 18 universities to give graduation speeches, lectures or political talks. JD Vance paid $55K by colleges he bashes as Senate candidate 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z I live in southern Appalachia and I’m surrounded, literally, my home is surrounded by farms and by coal mines. Barbara Kingsolver on Flight Behavior and Why Climate Change Is Part of Her Story 2012-11-08T17:00:07Z Toronto’s inner suburbs were his Appalachia, less wealthy than the downtown core of the city, which served as his proxy for a sort of coastal élite. What Toronto Knows about Trump after Living through Rob Ford 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z As The New York Times wrote, "Wanting to get away from Appalachia, she and her husband moved to Washington" to a logging community when she was first pregnant. By turning straw into gold records, Loretta Lynn helped me love where I come from 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Khar grew up not in remote Appalachia, but in a well-off family in Los Angeles. She Took Her First Pill at 8. By 13, She Was an Addict. 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Part of being a writer in Appalachia since 2016, when "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir" came out, is refuting this man. Don't just laugh at "Hillbilly Elegy" — its damaging myths still need to be countered 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Old-time music hails from Appalachia and “is the predecessor to bluegrass,” Newton tells me. Old-time music and do-si-dos: D.C. square dancers kick up their heels, whatever their age 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z “My hope is that this will start that for Appalachia.” Long Misunderstood, Appalachian Food Finds the Spotlight 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z For a short time, one of my boyfriends was a sweet-natured, freckled student who had worked in Appalachia and could imitate a backwoods twang. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z In Appalachia, the average farm operates on less than 200 acres, while nationally this figure skews toward more than 400. With a focus on food sovereignty, rural Appalachian Ohio is rebounding 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z As one music critic wrote of her work, it "systematically dismantles the myth of a homogenous Appalachia." Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp can teach Jason Aldean a thing or two about small towns 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z Macy, the author of “Factory Man,” is known for her familiarity with Appalachia and her serious reporting skills. 17 Refreshing Books to Read This Summer 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Open a dictionary and you'll see Appalachian described as a "native or inhabitant of Appalachia, especially one of predominantly Scotch-Irish, English, or German ancestry." How Black poets and writers gave a voice to "Affrilachia" 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Wanting to get away from Appalachia, she and her husband moved to Washington the next year, when Ms. Lynn, at 16, gave birth to Betty Sue, the first of the couple’s six children. Loretta Lynn, Country Music Star and Symbol of Rural Resilience, Dies at 90 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Back in the truck, he explained ramp hunting’s deep roots in Appalachia. Foraging for Ramps With the King of Appalachian Smoked Pork 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Kingsolver was a biologist before she was an author and is still a farmer and resident of Appalachia. Books of The Times: Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Flight Behavior’ 2012-11-18T22:17:53Z Lundy also provides plenty of ideas for what to do with ramps — the stinky wild onion revered in Appalachia that is all the rage every spring — including pickled ramps and a spring ramp pot roast. ‘Victuals,’ reviewed: A love letter to Appalachia, with recipes 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Like many farmers in Appalachia, Rick and Jan Felumlee began growing food in a commitment to self-sufficiency. With a focus on food sovereignty, rural Appalachian Ohio is rebounding 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Appalachia, in the popular imagination, stubbornly remains poor and white. How Black poets and writers gave a voice to "Affrilachia" 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Appalachia is a space of difficulty and hardship, for sure, but also one of vitality and resilience. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z In the mountain towns of Appalachia, as elsewhere, ordinary people battle corporate power reluctantly, and most often these struggles don’t involve the drama of the picket line, but rather reams of paperwork. America Has Mistreated Its Coal Miners. Here’s Their Fight for Justice. 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z That is something that struck me as well, because it's been a big part of my life living in Appalachia and raising my son there. Growing up in "Another Appalachia" is more relatable than you think: "I keep finding myself here " 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z In the United States, clogging originated in Appalachia. For Two Cloggers, 20 Years to Get in Step and Get Married 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z In a new song of his own, “The Fireman’s Talkin’ ” — which turned toward Appalachia with banjo and fiddle — he warned about global warming. Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band Roar Into the Garden 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z It is also a record of a rural life that has disappeared or is rapidly disappearing, the harsh struggle for survival in the mountains and backwoods of Appalachia and beyond. The High and Lonesome Sound: The Legacy of Roscoe Holcomb by John Cohen – review 2013-03-03T00:05:06Z Take a closer look at the people behind the many efforts to capitalize on music, food, culture and natural resources in central Appalachia, Provo says. Can rural America be saved? A new national ‘challenge’ tries to see. 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z But how many of them tackled the possibly more finicky salt-rising technique for bread, an American tradition that dates back to 18th century Appalachia? An Uncommon Rise for Bread 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Poor white people, and the rich white people who don’t care about them but seek to use them to bolster their argument, simply point to Appalachia and think the conversation is over. Dear White America: I know it’s hard, but you have to acknowledge what’s happening in this country 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Appalachia’s economy, like Pulaski’s, has been shaped by the boom and bust of mining, logging, agriculture and heavy industry. Can rural America be saved? A new national ‘challenge’ tries to see. 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Whereas other places have responded by giving out clean needles or rolling out supervised injection facilities, in central Appalachia they have mostly given out scoldings and bibles. America's opioid addiction: 'I ended up selling all my valuable stuff to buy pills' 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Maggie from Appalachia, so embarrassed of her thick accent that she hardly spoke. I walked away from my Pentecostal faith to live my own life — and nearly lost myself 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z New Appalachia, for House, was tied to Old Appalachian activism. Talking right: I lost my Appalachian accent to fit in. Now I want it back 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z It's a tired and tone-deaf "pull yourself up from your bootstraps" narrative that largely ignores the societal hardships faced by many in Appalachia — opioid addiction, lack of access to professional and educational resources, poverty. From "The Crown" to an animated WWII series, here's what's new on Netflix in November 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z “Political scientists have spent millions of words trying to explain how Appalachia and the South went from staunchly Democratic to staunchly Republican in less than a generation,” Mr. Vance writes. Review: In ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ a Compassionate Analysis of the Poor Who Love Trump 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z In her personal documentary “King Coal,” the director Elaine McMillion Sheldon records the modern traditions — beauty pageants, local football games and modest festivals — that commemorate the once dominant natural resource that powered central Appalachia. ‘King Coal’ Review: Heavy Is the Crown 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z The son of “a very staunch, orthodox party family,” as he later described it, Wu Tianming was born in 1939 in the Shaanxi Province, an impoverished region often described as China’s Appalachia. Wu Tianming, Film Director Who Reshaped Chinese Cinema, Dies at 74 2014-03-25T04:23:02Z What is new with the "Hillbilly Elegy" vision is that it is reframing Appalachia not so much as completely apart from America but as a quintessential example of the problems that the country is facing. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z And like Appalachia, those from elsewhere realized the value of Mandalore's natural material and took for their own gain while passing right over those who lived there, their ancestral claims and their very real need. Is Mandalore actually Appalachia? 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Vance the right to his own story, but rather to argue that we need to many stories which reflect the diverse range of experiences in Appalachia. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z While the Beatles and others were experimenting with backwards tape loops and psychedelic lyrics, Dylan and the Band were singing chain-gang songs, country standards, and ballads from Appalachia. Levon Helm, key member of The Band, dead at age 71 2012-04-20T02:31:04Z The white voters in Appalachia are solid Trump voters. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z He reached a sweet spot with “The Shepherd’s Dog” in 2007, a mesmerizing blend of Appalachia, West Africa, dub reggae and the Grateful Dead. Music Review: Bells and Whistles Turn Up the Volume 2011-01-30T22:55:08Z According to Sacco’s syllabus, the seminar looks at a history of the 20th century, not from the vantage point of elites, but through the eyes of Parton, “a poor white girl born in midcentury Appalachia.” Dolly Parton college course combines music, history and Appalachia’s pride 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z A closer look at counties in and around Appalachia prove this deadly trend persists. How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addicts in the US 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z As Salon's Erin Keane wrote, Vance's framing of the story tells people who don't know much about Eastern Kentucky or Appalachia what they think they already know. From "The Crown" to an animated WWII series, here's what's new on Netflix in November 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z The region “where cotton meets corn” is evident in Chattanooga’s straddling of two cultures: the mountain communities of Southern Appalachia to the north and the cotton-growing states to the south. 36 Hours in Chattanooga 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z He draws a line between these lords and those who divvied up Appalachia’s land from afar. The Story of Appalachia, With Plenty of Villains 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z “By no means do I think that the Black folks in Appalachia, the Black folks in West Virginia, are going to be able to win everything they want just by themselves,” Wells says. Black voters in West Virginia are tired of being invisible 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z He and 15 members of the church’s choir traveled from New York to Washington to stage a protest as part of Appalachia Rising, a campaign to end mountaintop-removal coal mining. Reverend Billy?s Revelation: A Role for Money 2010-10-08T22:42:00Z Marine with an undergraduate degree from Ohio State and a family rooted in rural Appalachia, is a fish out of water in the Ivy League. ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Review: I Remember Mamaw 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z The decline of the coal industry has brought even more economic hardship to these isolated hills and hollows — providing fertile ground for Appalachia’s signature epidemic. In Appalachia, Crafting a Road to Recovery With Dulcimer Strings 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z In 2016, the Washington Post had declared “Humble Appalachia” the next big thing in American regional cooking. It's time to ditch the shame surrounding "trash foods" 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z He founded the Cline Group to mine coal in the hills of Appalachia before starting Foresight Energy LP, a joint venture with Robert Murray’s Murray Energy Corp., to expand into Illinois and Missouri. Trump donor from West Virginia among 7 Americans killed in copter crash in Bahamas, officials say 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Hopscotching from country to country, it begins in the United States with scenes of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia and its destructive environmental effects. Review: ‘Time to Choose’ Extols Renewable Energy to Combat Global Warming 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z In some ways, I think rural people and people in Appalachia were just more prepared for this. Growing up in "Another Appalachia" is more relatable than you think: "I keep finding myself here " 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z In his latest film, The Big Ugly, he plays a London gangster at large in the US, intent on laundering dirty money through the green hills of Appalachia. Malcolm McDowell: 'I have no memory of doing most of my films' 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z The plight of Appalachia becomes a prevailing cause every other decade or so. The Story of Appalachia, With Plenty of Villains 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Appalachia, it appears, is a place defined as much by music, faith and family as it is by county and state line, and from where I stood that felt abundant. In Southern Appalachia, Searching for the ‘Big Bang’ of Country Music 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z In Kentucky, a grant will help the arts organization Appalshop preserve film footage documenting the people of Appalachia. National Endowment for the Humanities Announces New Grants 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z So many people from rural and remote areas like Appalachia are forced to leave home due to lack of opportunities, lack of acceptance, lack. Is Mandalore actually Appalachia? 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z A boy born in a trailer in Appalachia faces the challenges of childhood poverty. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z There will also be a long solo piece and several duets, even some trios from "Appalachia Waltz." Seattle-born Mark O'Connor is at home with bluegrass and Bach ? and Meany audiences will see and hear him on Saturday 2011-01-28T21:15:09Z Thus it is that Samantha finds herself at the Mountain Legal Aid Clinic in tiny Brady, Va., in the heart of Appalachia. Book review: John Grisham’s ‘Gray Mountain’ is a searing look at Big Coal Soon after, when my father had a bad reaction to steroids, he lashed out at his caregivers, shouting about the mistreatment he’d suffered as a black man born during the 1930s in rural Appalachia. Trauma and triumph: my father, his dementia and surviving segregation 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z With the producer Joe Henry, she made an album that bridges traditionalism — including one a cappella song — and an informal mixture of Irish instruments and Americana that sometimes lands in Appalachia. For New Holiday Albums, It Takes All Kinds 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z With that, Ma grabbed his cello and serenaded Mrs. Daley and the rest of the crowd with a soulful rendition of one of his signature encores, Mark O'Connor's "Appalachia Waltz." CSO's Muti, Yo Yo Ma close youth festival with flair 2011-05-16T00:58:33Z Stoll discusses the difference between “lowlanders” and “highlanders” of Appalachia, implicitly revealing the importance of culture. What the People of Appalachia Want 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z It was my first day in a class called “Experiencing Appalachia” during my first year of college. Talking right: I lost my Appalachian accent to fit in. Now I want it back 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z “Go Dig My Grave,” an old song that traveled from the British Isles to Appalachia, is death-haunted and implacable. Karol G and Romeo Santos’s Sensual Goodbye, and 10 More New Songs 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Though the museum focuses on the 1927 sessions, it uses that story to tell ancillary narratives about the role of sacred music and life in Appalachia at the time. In Southern Appalachia, Searching for the ‘Big Bang’ of Country Music 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z As a misfit teen in rural Appalachia, music was a lifeline for me. Sitting in front of David Berman's old apartment in the middle of the night 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z And there is plenty to forage: Southern and central Appalachia are acknowledged as the most biodiverse regions in North America. The next big thing in American regional cooking: Humble Appalachia 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z When I did a similar trip by bus, train and hitchhiking, over a 6 week period in 1967, Africa had already become Appalachia. Seeing Africa by Road 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z The memoir describes the plight of poor, angry white Americans in Appalachia and the Rust Belt, a tinderbox of resentment that ignited national politics. ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ made J.D. Vance the voice of the Rust Belt. But does he want that job? 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z However, I do think that particularly in Appalachia a lot of the money and labor that we funnel towards that idea of empowerment or that idea of service is not always effective. "The Third Rainbow Girl" author on the true story of a double murder she didn't set out to write 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Ezra Knight, the actor playing a mine employee named Roosevelt Lynch Jr., who lost his father in the explosion, said workshopping the play doubled as a master class in understanding Appalachia. In ‘Coal Country,’ Memories From a Mining Tragedy Live On 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z “For us, it has always been incredibly important that this play be seen, heard and experienced outside of New York, and particularly in Appalachia,” said Jessica Blank, the production’s director. Radio Drama for a Podcast Age: How Amazon’s Audible Moved Into Theater 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z “Appalachia in particular is geographically isolated and is increasingly economically isolated,” he said. The science of white working class pain: Trump’s appeal is rooted in the body as well as the mind 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z It’s more than 200 miles from where she grew up, but it’s still Appalachia. An Appalachian Elegy, Hillbillies Not Included 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z We could be talking about Appalachia, the place where I lived for most of my life, where my child was born and where I will always consider home, no matter what my driver's license says. Is Mandalore actually Appalachia? 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z There are strong progressive forces at work in Appalachia. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z “In the mountain towns of Appalachia, as elsewhere, ordinary people battle corporate power reluctantly,” Héctor Tobar writes in his review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Together, the women are defining the cooking of African-American Appalachia, weaving together old recipes and food memories with West African influences and techniques. Long Misunderstood, Appalachian Food Finds the Spotlight 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z And Appalachia just might have New York beat when it comes to sweet bagels. Long Misunderstood, Appalachian Food Finds the Spotlight 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Bearing titles like “Hillbilly Fever,” “Out Behind the Barn” and “A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed,” many of his records were unabashed paeans to rural life that evoked his years growing up in Appalachia. Jimmy Dickens, an Outsize Country Singer, Dies at 94 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Books that brought stories of Africa to Appalachia and books that continue to bring us all a slice of the world. Review | In Jojo Moyes’s ‘The Giver of Stars,’ the heroes are librarians on horseback 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Along with the promise of work, her parents, upon visiting Appalachia for the first time, "found the lush greenery and mountains of the Mountain State, so different from dry and dusty Gujarat, deeply alluring." Growing up in "Another Appalachia" is more relatable than you think: "I keep finding myself here " 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Of course, that narrative hides the way that Appalachia is in so many ways completely integrated into American society. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z Sharyn McCrumb, 66, who writes the Ballad Novels series set in Appalachia, was similarly influenced, and in her comic novel “Bimbos of the Death Sun” D&D even helps solve a murder. Dungeons & Dragons Has Influenced a Generation of Writers 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Finally, the question is whether Samantha will return to the glories of New York or stand and fight amid the hardships of Appalachia. Book review: John Grisham’s ‘Gray Mountain’ is a searing look at Big Coal It also offers visualizations of how deer overpopulation affects Appalachia, where the reserve is. Meeting Old Masters, Rowing With Vikings — in Augmented Reality 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Stoll’s book suggests Appalachia did not have to turn out this way; not at all. The Story of Appalachia, With Plenty of Villains 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z When the film “Big Stone Gap” premiered earlier this month, it did something no other movie ever has: showed Appalachia as a place of both diversity and intelligence. Deliver me from “Deliverance”: Finally, a Hollywood movie gets Appalachian people right 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z That same barrier plagues rural residents throughout Appalachia — and indeed in much of rural America — as does lack of high-speed Internet and home-diagnosis and monitoring kits for a variety of chronic diseases. Diabetes in Appalachia: “Just give me a pill” 2012-08-08T11:45:00Z The memoir would have benefited from a bit more history of how the timber and coal industries — economic saviors that often ran on duplicity — dominated an Appalachia isolated by geography and tradition. J.D. Vance's 'Hillbilly Elegy' provides a window into the pain and anger of Trump's America 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z The music video isn’t without flaws; as journalist Logan Roper wrote, the portrayal of those who oppose equal rights solely as rural trailer park residents reinforces narrow minded stereotypes about Appalachia. Taylor Swift breaks her silence on why she didn't endorse Hillary Clinton in 2016 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z This week he resigned from the board of a Kentucky company that uses green technology to produce food in Appalachia. ‘Hillbilly’ to Capitol Hill? Author eyes Senate bid in Ohio 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Vance's bestseller about bootstrapping one's way out of Appalachia and into Yale Law School didn't contain a bunch of equally insane moments. From "Hillbilly Elegy" to "The Gentlemen," here are the worst films of 2020 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Yet with her carefully-crafted songs, she sought to turn the Moore into a back porch in Appalachia, a sleight of hand she achieved. Gillian Welch ? simple, spare, stunning 2011-07-14T21:09:04Z Once I would have never imagined finding online spaces embracing both the words “Queer” and “Appalachia” at once. Queering Appalachia — finding chosen families online in an unforgiving landscape 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Another found poem is based on survivors’ accounts and journalism about the DuPont company’s dumping of hazardous wastes in Appalachia. Scorching, Sophisticated New Work From Two of America’s Leading Poets 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z If you hear someone float the commonly held belief that Elizabethan English persists somewhere in the hills of Appalachia, they’re following in Frost’s footsteps. Combatting stereotypes about Appalachian dialects 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z As romantic as this notion seems, the era of Elizabethan English officially ended in 1603, before any permanent U.S. immigration and long before the settlement of Appalachia. Combatting stereotypes about Appalachian dialects 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Mark and Forrest will play mandolins on a rendition of “Sleigh Ride,” and there will be a “gorgeous mash-up” of Mark’s celebrated “Appalachia Waltz” and “Silent Night.” Successful O’Connor Band brings “An Appalachian Christmas” back to Seattle 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Ultimately, the problem is that Appalachia has been defined too much by the idea of one single story or narrative. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z Vance's Rust Belt memoir "Hillbilly Elegy," about his family's history of poverty in Appalachia, became a bipartisan bestseller in 2016, supposedly because it offered an explanation for who voted for a Trump's presidency. "Hillbilly Elegy" is "poverty-class cosplay" and "laughably bad" – reviews of Netflix's adaptations 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z The small town is Dooling, somewhere in Appalachia within reach of Wheeling, W. Va.’s television and radio signals. Stephen King and Son Team Up for a Novel About Women Whose Sleep Should Not Be Disturbed 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Moral qualms of the sort Lyle expressed, about denuding the landscape and impoverishing the people of West Virginia, were rare indeed, if you believe Steven Stoll, the author of “Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia.” The Story of Appalachia, With Plenty of Villains 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Rooted in the folk songs of Appalachia, the playlist of the original Carter family grew and was spread in those early years by the powerful signal of a Mexican radio station. Review: Generations of Music by the Carter Family, Documented 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z But it’s also a small town in central Appalachia, in the poorest county in my state: Ohio. Can you afford to be green when you're poor? I kept a diary to find out 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z But "Hillbilly Elegy" has a foundational problem: It may be one man's story, but that does not make it valid sociology or revealing of greater truths about Appalachia as a whole. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z But it also seriously traces an important arc of regional decline, as the conditions that once made Appalachia ideal furniture country begin to fail. In Beth Macy’s ‘Factory Man,’ a Struggle to Stay Competitive 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Over Labor Day weekend, festivals will fete everything from beer to poetry, folk life to kite-flying, all set among some of the most beautiful mountains in Appalachia. The Best Labor Day Road Trips 2010-08-26T23:40:00Z Anders nailed fifteen hubcaps to the porch in homage to some imagined Appalachia, and curated a sculpture garden in the front yard. The Time Capsule 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z Also, for a long time Appalachia has been presented as somehow outside of American culture, history, society. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z And although he probably wouldn't have cared a whit for the likes of Bottesini, he embodied, as this performance did, an Appalachia that is both American and part of the ever-expanding wide world of music. The Philharmonic dances through Bach and bluegrass at the Bowl 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z He didn’t, of course, because Wilson was “writing about black people in the inner cities,” not whites in Appalachia or the Rust Belt. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Trail mix: The sauce flows through seven regions, including Appalachia, Coastal Virginia and the capital area. Satisfy your food, beverage or cultural craving on a Mid-Atlantic trail 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z A boy born in a trailer in Appalachia faces the challenges of childhood poverty with resilience. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Sounds a lot like many parts of Appalachia and its complex relationship with coal. Is Mandalore actually Appalachia? 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z What once defined central Appalachia – a tight social structures focused on community – is giving way to the ordinariness of strip malls, franchises and disposable jobs. America's opioid addiction: 'I ended up selling all my valuable stuff to buy pills' 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z "House" is a traditional folk song with roots going back to early 20th century Appalachia, and maybe even earlier. 25 of the most covered songs in music history 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z You’ll find stacks of cookbooks from Appalachia and Louisiana, but his adopted state’s native recipes were largely based on oral traditions passed down from grandparents to somewhat-interested grandchildren. Can this chef save Floridian food from oblivion? 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Rates of female unemployment are also higher in more rural and poverty-stricken regions, of course, like the Deep South, Appalachia, Northern Michigan, and various locations in the middle of the country. What Unemployed People Do With Their Time 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z The implication, of course, was that since we were clearly from Appalachia, then we were most likely similar to that character: the violent, stupid, subhuman products of inbreeding. Deliver me from “Deliverance”: Finally, a Hollywood movie gets Appalachian people right 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z I don't think New England thinks it has anything to learn from Appalachia. Growing up in "Another Appalachia" is more relatable than you think: "I keep finding myself here " 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Many Star Wars planets were based on real countries and locations, and the region of Appalachia may provide a blueprint of what happens when you exploit a place — and mistakenly count out its citizens. Is Mandalore actually Appalachia? 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z As such, "Hillbilly Elegy", both the film and the book, will continue to cast a long shadow over America's understanding of Appalachia, white rural poverty and the famed white working class. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z Like some people in Appalachia, with its richly fertile land and rich history of protest, they are both. Is Mandalore actually Appalachia? 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Daves, who grew up in Atlanta, is a guitarist and singer with a tense, pinched, nasal voice that harks back to old Appalachia. Michael Daves Brings Bluegrass to the Bell House 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z “When this trail system is finished, it will be the longest east of the Mississippi. It’s a chance to bring tourism dollars to rural Appalachia.” The Mountain Bike Cure: Exercise, Fresh Air and Fellowship 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z On one level, its music suggests a handwritten love letter to the folk traditions of Appalachia, offered without irony or concessions to modernity. Music Review: The 3 Women of Mountain Man, in Perfect Harmony 2011-08-01T21:27:08Z He writes: “The coal barons no longer ruled Appalachia. Now it was the painkiller profiteers.” How Painkiller Pushers Took Over Coal Country 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Her latest book began with the question of how to tell a story about the opioid epidemic that is ravaging Appalachia. An Appalachian Elegy, Hillbillies Not Included 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Romulus Linney, a prolific playwright whose work ranged from stories set in Appalachia to the Nuremberg trials, died Saturday in upstate New York. Laura Linney to return to Broadway following loss 2011-01-18T18:18:16Z None of this is lost on Vance, 32, a proud product of Appalachia, the Marines, Ohio State and Yale Law. ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ made J.D. Vance the voice of the Rust Belt. But does he want that job? 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Her poem shifts from the speaker hunting for rabbits with their father to the hunt as a larger metaphor for being Black in Appalachia – and thus seen as both predator and prey: How Black poets and writers gave a voice to "Affrilachia" 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Certainly the coal mines have always been diverse, and there is an increase in diversity in urban Appalachia as well. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z The population of these and nearby smaller towns totals more than 500,000 people, making the area one of the largest metropolitan centers in Appalachia. Where the Hills and Hollows Are Alive With Music 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Appalachia might be the word to describe the town, though Appalachia officially ends at the town’s southern border at Delaware County, my county. Hurricane Irene, one year later 2012-08-27T16:42:00Z Since then, deaths from drugs have doubled, and what was once a small isolated red spot in Kentucky has grown larger and darker, overtaking Kingsport and the rest of central Appalachia. America's opioid addiction: 'I ended up selling all my valuable stuff to buy pills' 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Arnika Dawkins is concentrating on images of civil rights protests from the 1960s by Builder Levy, who also shot in Appalachia. Aipad’s Photography Show Grows Up 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Photograph: Mark Haskett Ron Rash's "bleak" collection of short stories set in Appalachia, Burning Bright, has won the American author the world's richest prize for the short story form, the Frank O'Connor award. Frank O'Connor award goes to Ron Rash 2010-09-20T11:37:00Z His protagonist, sent to work on cases in Appalachia after being laid off from her high-powered job, provides a window to the plight of miners. The five best thrillers of 2014 Opened in 1892, Cherokee was one of Frederick Law Olmsted’s last and wildest creations — think Prospect Park in the foothills of Appalachia. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Louisville, Ky. 2011-03-31T21:01:28Z "Sorghum-scented stack cakes filled with layers of cooked apples show up only in Appalachia and the Ozarks and some scattered pockets of the west where Appalachians migrated," she wrote. The autumnal apple stack cake is rich in flavor and Appalachian folklore 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z Here, in a swath of Appalachia that stretches from Ohio to West Virginia — a land of green woods, white people and Gothic clichés — little rises but everything must converge. ‘The Devil All the Time’ Review: Down-Home Livin’ and Dyin’ 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z With the rise of Trumpism, there was a renewed interest in the so-called white working class as well as the white poor in regions such as Appalachia. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z Harder to capture, and far more revealing, are the mysteries of Appalachia as they appear to Appalachians. Another Side of Appalachia 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z He also depicted poverty in rural Appalachia and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi during the early 1960s. Rock photographer Jim Marshall dies at 74 2010-03-25T12:22:00Z The idea of a memoir of a culture is one of the things that got people upset who live here in the region and who also study Appalachia. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z What do people outside of Appalachia not understand about the region and its people? Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z The rest of the details are no less impressive: onions smoked over charcoal, cheese from Appalachia, bread-and-butter squash pickles and Martin’s potato roll. Review | Never mind the name (or the drive). The Shack’s food is sublime. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z “I think there are some stereotypes associated with the area, especially in rural Appalachia,” he said. Dolly Parton college course combines music, history and Appalachia’s pride 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z On one hand, this is organic: The Roanoke Valley is hewed from rugged Appalachia, with no shortage of burly terrain, public land, streams and rivers. In Roanoke, Va., discovering a gateway to outdoor adventure 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Today, Black writers and poets continue to explore what it means to be Black and from Appalachia. How Black poets and writers gave a voice to "Affrilachia" 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Okay, so maybe the locals in this rugged, scenic pocket of Appalachia, 11 miles from the town of Davis, aren’t delivering the mail on cross-country skis. Skiing West Virginia’s ‘Canadian Valley’ in a banner season 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Last fall, he brought out “Gray Mountain,” a superb thriller about the environmental and human wreckage wrought by big coal companies in Appalachia. John Grisham’s terrific new thriller, ‘Rogue Lawyer’ 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Well, she’s from Alaska, which is the farthest place from hillbilly country you can think of, since that's associated with Appalachia. Can a literary thriller heal divides? Silas House’s “Southernmost” isn’t preaching to eit... 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Vance advanced a lot of negative stereotypes that we have about Appalachia, which is where I grew up. 'Final Destination' creator Jeffrey Reddick on how the horror franchise should evolve 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Other awardees include regional hydrogen hubs along the Gulf Coast and in the Pacific Northwest, the Midwest, the Mid-Atlantic region, Appalachia and the heartland states of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. California to get up to $1.2 billion in federal funds to expand hydrogen energy projects 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z Voters across Kentucky, from Appalachia to the banks of the Mississippi River, are weighing their decision in the Nov. 7 race between Beshear and Republican Daniel Cameron, the state’s attorney general. Swing-county Kentucky voters weigh their choices for governor in a closely watched off-year election 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z I’m sure it’s meant a lot to people in Appalachia who have read the book, and I imagine you have heard from some of them. The author of 'the great Appalachian novel' is coming to Seattle. Here's what inspired her 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z An estimated 600,000 black bears live in much of North America, particularly Canada, New England, Appalachia, and many western states, even reaching into Mexico. Bears at Disney World? Get used to it, experts say 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z In the biggest shale gas basin, Appalachia in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, output is set to ease to 35.7 bcfd in October, the lowest level since April. US oil output from top shale areas to fall for 3rd straight month in October, EIA says 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z An effort to destigmatize the use of overdose reversal drugs that started as a pilot in two West Virginia counties has expanded to all thirteen states in Appalachia this year. Communities across Appalachia band together for first-ever 13-state Narcan distribution event 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z And it showed just how pervasive the drugs were: Each year, drug companies were shipping enough pills for everyone living in some counties - mostly in Appalachia - to have more than a 100-day supply. Prescription opioid shipments declined sharply even as fatal overdoses increased, new data shows 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Living in Appalachia, a region often treated with condescension “by the mainstream urban powers that be, I decided a long time ago that I’m not looking for their approval,” she said. The author of 'the great Appalachian novel' is coming to Seattle. Here's what inspired her 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z And it showed just how pervasive the drugs were: Each year, drug companies were shipping enough pills for everyone living in some counties — mostly in Appalachia — to have more than a 100-day supply. Prescription opioid shipments declined sharply even as fatal overdoses increased, new data shows 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z As institutions like these disappear in Central Appalachia — first after the collapse of its company towns but more recently because of population loss and other factors — that net has been torn to shreds. One overlooked way to fight opioid deaths: Give people something to do | Opinion 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z She came back to the university where her parents went because her research is focused on Appalachia. West Virginia University crisis looms as GOP leaders focus on economic development, jobs 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z “Some of the smartest, most hardworking people I know are from Appalachia,” she said. Morgan Wade isn't going to let anything stand in her way. Least of all those tabloid rumors 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z You’ve shared why you wanted to write about Appalachia, but what inspired you to use Dickens’ David Copperfield as your template for this story? The author of 'the great Appalachian novel' is coming to Seattle. Here's what inspired her 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z The next fire, for example, might be somewhere in Appalachia, or downwind of the Pine Barrens or in a beach town in New Jersey, or in Wisconsin or the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, he said. A ‘perfect storm’ set Hawaii ablaze. Experts say it could happen almost anywhere 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z The 50-year-old Satterfield made his name as the head man at Appalachia State in his native North Carolina, compiling a 46-16 record and leading the Mountaineers to three bowl games in five seasons. With a new coach and a parade of new faces, Cincinnati will try to step up in the Big 12 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z They include an electric vehicle “battery belt” of manufacturing stretching from Michigan to Georgia, semiconductor fabrication plants in Arizona, Texas, Ohio and New York and broadband coming to Appalachia. In ‘Bidenomics,’ Congress delivered a once-in-generation investment — with political promise, peril 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Presley, a sharp-witted storyteller who also hails from Appalachia, felt instant recognition when she met Wade for the first time at their writing session. Morgan Wade isn't going to let anything stand in her way. Least of all those tabloid rumors 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z The co-authors chose communities to study in Appalachia, South Texas and the southern Cotton Belt that were representative from the bottom 200 of their list. In the U.S., geography is fate. A new book on poverty seeks to change that 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Unfortunately for Appalachia, the feud is one of its greatest sources of fame. The Hatfield-McCoy feud can in part be explained by a rare medical condition that causes rage 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z Mountain Valley is key to unlocking gas supplies from Appalachia, the nation's biggest shale gas-producing basin in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. Equitrans US Mountain Valley natgas pipe on track for end 2023 completion 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z An estimated one in five tenured miners in Central Appalachia has black lung disease; one in 20 has the most disabling form of black lung. After decades of delays and broken promises, coal miners hail rule to slow rise of black lung 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z “Appalachia has been so particularly exploited, almost treated as an internal colony,” she said, calling the opioid epidemic “one more turn in this exploitation trade.” Barbara Kingsolver wins Women’s Prize for Fiction with Appalachian novel ‘Demon Copperhead’ 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z U2’s lyrics resonate with the book’s depiction of “internal colonies” that perpetuate economic and social injustices against Black and Latino residents throughout the rural South as well as poor whites in Appalachia. In the U.S., geography is fate. A new book on poverty seeks to change that 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z One project got special treatment: the legislation essentially ensures construction of the long-delayed Mountain Valley Pipeline, a $6.6 billion project to transport natural gas through Appalachia. Debt ceiling deal advances pipeline and tweaks environmental rules. But more work remains. 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z The pipeline, which would unlock gas supplies from Appalachia, the country's biggest shale gas basin, still needs review and permitting including in West Virginia. Biden admin supports Mountain Valley Pipeline for second time in week 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z Similar trends can be seen in Appalachia, said Rick Childers, an alumnus of Berea College in rural Kentucky who mentors male students from the region. The latest group to get special attention from college admissions offices: men 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Kingsolver said she wrote the book to tell stories from a part of the United States — the mountainous Appalachia region — that is often overlooked or regarded as “just a joke.” Barbara Kingsolver wins Women’s Prize for Fiction with Appalachian novel ‘Demon Copperhead’ 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z The pipeline carries natural gas from southern Appalachia to liquefied natural gas terminals in Louisiana, where it’s frozen into a liquid and loaded onto giant ships for export. Pipeline restores gas flow after lightning-sparked inferno 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z Over the course of the 20th century, an estimated four billion of them, one-fourth of the hardwood trees growing in Appalachia, were killed by an Asian fungus accidentally imported in the late 19th century. To save chestnut trees, we may have to ‘play God’ 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Belafonte used the platform not only to entertain but also to discuss civil rights, the Vietnam War and starvation in Appalachia with guests including King and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy. Harry Belafonte, barrier-smashing entertainer and activist, dies at 96 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Aspire Appalachia, an eastern Kentucky nonprofit, installed new drywall and bought some of the major fixtures the Combses needed to replace, including a toilet, a washing machine and a dryer. When Floods Destroy Homes, Hidden Costs Can Devastate Survivors 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z "For large areas of Appalachia, we just don't know the climatology there as well as, say, Louisville or some of the major cities," he said. In East Kentucky, timely weather forecasts are a matter of life and death 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Community advocates in the coalfields of central Appalachia and other places dependent upon fossil fuel production have long insisted that their towns cannot be left behind by the nation's switch to renewable energy. A tax break on clean energy projects is coming to coal and oil towns 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z By the time Rex Mann was old enough to work in the forests of Appalachia, they were full of the dead. To save chestnut trees, we may have to ‘play God’ 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z I think what this documentary reveals to people who may not know is that poor white folks in Appalachia and poor Black and brown folks in South Los Angeles are going through very similar problems. Liberals and conservatives can find common ground. Van Jones' newly streaming movie shows how 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z According to Wallace Caleb Bates, community outreach coordinator with Aspire Appalachia, the organization that helped the Combs family, reckoning with day-to-day expenses after a disaster is a common experience. When Floods Destroy Homes, Hidden Costs Can Devastate Survivors 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z The extra credit will likely cover projects in places like coal-heavy Appalachia decimated by mine and plant closures. US to detail plan to draw clean energy into oil, coal communities 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z The coalfields of central Appalachia, particularly West Virginia and portions of Virginia and Kentucky, are almost solidly red. A tax break on clean energy projects is coming to coal and oil towns 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z Former mining areas in Appalachia and other parts of the country have long had the infrastructure, workforce, expertise and “can-do attitude” to produce energy, Granholm told reporters on Monday. Biden offers $450M for clean energy projects at coal mines 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Its despair and suffering echo through cities large and small, from the pitched tents and open drug use in Los Angeles to the hamlets and hollows reeling from the opioid epidemic across Appalachia. Can this town save itself from fentanyl addiction? The race to turn around a threatened community 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections — to provide abortions to patients across central Appalachia, a region that clinic operators say is an “abortion desert.” New Maryland clinic opening in post-Roe ‘abortion desert’ 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections — to provide abortions to patients across central Appalachia, a region clinic operators say is an “abortion desert.” New Maryland clinic opening in post-Roe ‘abortion desert’ 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z A 2020 study by West Virginia University found renewable energy is increasingly competitive in Appalachia. A tax break on clean energy projects is coming to coal and oil towns 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z It’s also timely in its way, a counterweight to certain narratives of Appalachia that strip their characters’ lives of joy and meaning while also bleaching out the stains of racism and class struggle. Idra Novey's new novel proves fiction can be worth a thousand think pieces 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z The East Palestine train was carrying this dangerous chemical in the first place because of a booming plastics industry that’s expanding to Ohio and other parts of Appalachia. Opinion: Another toxic train derailment will happen if we don't rein in plastics 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Wi-Fi can be mercurial in Appalachia and other rural areas, so mobile wireless broadband is also on hand as a backup, if a patient’s residence lacks a connection. The Hospital Makes a House Call 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z This coastal county, about 55 miles from the Oregon border, surrounded by giant redwoods, reminded me of my hometown in West Virginia, at the heart of Appalachia. 'Living here isn't easy to begin with.' How an earthquake brought people together 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z The blast of wintry weather will descend upon the Plains and upper Midwest on Wednesday, then blow toward Appalachia and the East Coast. US braces for dangerous blast of cold, wind and snow 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z The 300-mile project is fiercely opposed by environmental groups who say it would pollute land and water and continue a legacy of energy projects that treat Appalachia as “a sacrifice zone.” Manchin bid to speed energy permits to reemerge in 2023 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z In the 1990s, misleading marketing by opioid companies helped drive up prescription rates, particularly in coal, lumber, and manufacturing towns across Appalachia and Maine. In rural America, deadly costs of opioids outweigh the dollars tagged to address them 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Appalachia’s “hollers” — the hollows, or narrow valleys between mountains — can be tough to traverse even in favorable weather. The Hospital Makes a House Call 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z One of our top 10 books of the year, Kingsolver’s update of Charles Dickens’s “David Copperfield” follows the travails of a boy growing up poor in Appalachia. Readers share their favorite audiobooks of the year 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z In her day-to-day work, Ms. Miller, 53, is in charge of financially supporting regional organizations, individuals and groups working to advance social, economic, racial and environmental justice across Appalachia. In Appalachia, Margo Miller Leads From a ‘Place of Courageous Joy’ 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z The Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z There’s a tendency to glorify the coal boom, he said, while the legacy of brutal exploitation of cheap labor in Appalachia is glossed over — forgotten or literally overgrown. Unmarked graves, an ‘ugly history’: W.Va. weighs mine safety 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z But their heartland is Appalachia, where they've been mentioned in songs and incorporated into regional recipes for generations; at least six states have named towns after the fruit. Pawpaws, America’s latest fruit craze, are being threatened by climate change 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z On the U.S. gas output side, supply showed a modest uptick last week as supply from Appalachia rose after being tepid all year and volumes in Permian and Haynesville shale fields were strong. U.S. LNG exports remain flat as domestic market braces for cold season 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z African Americans make up about 10 percent of Appalachia’s population while those identifying as Hispanic or Latino account for 5.6 percent of the population, a number that is growing, according to the Appalachian Regional Commission. In Appalachia, Margo Miller Leads From a ‘Place of Courageous Joy’ 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z I don't know why if you grow up in rural Appalachia or wherever, you should have any confidence that the New York Times is factual and accurate. "Poison Ivy" author Evan Mandery: "Elite colleges are harmful to society" 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z But the burden of climate shocks extends beyond the Gulf Coast and Appalachia. New Measure of Climate’s Toll: Disasters Are Now Common Across U.S. 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z The plants prefer low elevations and the nutrient-rich, moist soils along creeks or rivers, a habitat that's already been diminished by urbanization and large-scale agriculture in much of the Midwest and Appalachia. Pawpaws, America’s latest fruit craze, are being threatened by climate change 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z The natural gas boom in the vast Marcellus Shale gas reservoir beneath Appalachia attracted Shell to the area. After years of construction, Shell ethane cracker starts up 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Still, sociologists and historians said, Black and Latino people with roots in Appalachia have a deep connection to the area and their rich history should be studied and appreciated. In Appalachia, Margo Miller Leads From a ‘Place of Courageous Joy’ 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z What sells in Appalachia, with its natural-resource-driven economy and manufacturing base, may not sell or even be effective in other regions. Getting to ‘net-zero’ emissions: How energy leaders envision countering climate change in the future 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z How is your Appalachia different from Vance's or his idea of the region? J.D. Vance "misrepresented everything" and "leaves out" women 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z The core of the pawpaws' range in Appalachia will most likely remain suitable for the next century, while strategies like irrigation can help stave off the impact of more frequent droughts. Pawpaws, America’s latest fruit craze, are being threatened by climate change 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z “I have family from Appalachia, and I grew up in the city,” she said. Abortion rights wins in Kentucky, elsewhere stoke supporters 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Someone draped himself in a campaign flag, cape-like, with chants of “J.D.” greeting the son of Appalachia and southwestern Ohio as he finally stepped into his next moment. J.D. Vance Gets What He Came For in Ohio, No Elegy Necessary 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Unbeknownst to Huff, a national network of election deniers had been making inroads in Surry County, on the fringe of Appalachia. A top North Carolina county official stood up to election deniers — but they pushed back harder 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Maybe if he had gone to Antioch Appalachia instead of Yale. J.D. Vance "misrepresented everything" and "leaves out" women 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Since the 1970s, surface mining has affected more than 7 percent of Central Appalachia, according to satellite data compiled by the nonprofit SkyTruth, rupturing a landscape larger than the state of Delaware. Seeking stability in school when the flood waters rise 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Residents of the area — former coal towns at the southern end of Appalachia — have felt cheated for generations, she said. Their America Is Vanishing. Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated. 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Inside Appalachia didn’t encounter anyone from China when we visited - but we did find someone from Lebanon. West Virginia spring’s waters still drawing devotees 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z “AppHarvest will change that, and it will do so by building a sustainable, durable business in Appalachia, and investing in the people who call it home.” JD Vance’s firm invested in food company now facing lawsuits 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z What do you wish that people knew about Appalachia? J.D. Vance "misrepresented everything" and "leaves out" women 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z The series, out Friday, is set in the near and far future, the natural world and virtual reality, Appalachia and London. 'The Peripheral' is more confusing than compelling 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Consumer warning: If you don’t want to trade in your beliefs for the truth about Appalachia and its people, avoid this book. How Barbara Kingsolver makes literature topical — from climate change to opioids 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z The book is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia and follows the life of a boy, born to a single, teenage mother, as he endures everything from foster care to drug addiction. Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Demon Copperhead’ is new Oprah pick 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Senate campaign: that he left behind a lucrative business career in San Francisco’s tech world to focus on revitalizing Appalachia. JD Vance’s firm invested in food company now facing lawsuits 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z I think a lot of my family too doesn't really think of Ohio's Appalachia as being part of Appalachia. J.D. Vance "misrepresented everything" and "leaves out" women 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z As directors of the Center for Oral Health Research in Appalachia, we know firsthand that inequalities exist when it comes to oral health, including in children. No, it’s not just sugary food that’s responsible for poor oral health in America’s children 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z How did your life in Appalachia impact his character? How Barbara Kingsolver makes literature topical — from climate change to opioids 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Kingsolver, 67, has lived for years on a farm in southern Appalachia, and has long blended narrative drama and social commentary. Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Demon Copperhead’ is new Oprah pick 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Hatfield’s statement calls those pictures “estranged landscapes,” a term that might well apply to much of mined, denuded Appalachia. Review | In the galleries: Sculptures take us beyond the conventional 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z And the history of Appalachia is a place of great natural riches and resources, where the people were impoverished by the uses of those resources. J.D. Vance "misrepresented everything" and "leaves out" women 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z The MVP, a planned natural gas pipeline traversing 303 miles of Appalachia, is hours away. Opinion | Why does the Mountain Valley Pipeline matter? 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Allowing more pipelines for dirty fracked gas truly is madness and is a kick in the face and lives of the communities in Appalachia that have suffered disproportionately. Natural-gas pipelines: The stakes have never been higher 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z This attempted expansion of petrochemical facilities in Louisiana, Texas and Appalachia is creating “sacrifice zones” where big companies believe local residents are just as disposable as the plastic they manufacture. The Race to Stop a Plastics Plant Scores a Crucial Win 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Billions of chestnuts once dominated Appalachia, with Americans over many generations relying on their hardy trunks for log cabins, floor panels and telephone poles. At Old Coal Mines, the American Chestnut Tries for a Comeback 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z That has to be at the base of any story about Appalachia. J.D. Vance "misrepresented everything" and "leaves out" women 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Because the MVP construction is destroying the habitat of two endangered fish — the candy darter and Roanoke logperch — menacing the Jefferson National Forest and threatening countless species that live in Appalachia. Opinion | Why does the Mountain Valley Pipeline matter? 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z When flooding swept through parts of Appalachia in late July, McIntosh said, the governor moved quickly. Crises forge Beshear’s role as Kentucky’s consoler in chief 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z When crypto mining companies were forced out of China last year, the ample power available from the Tennessee Valley Authority made Appalachia an appealing spot. A neighborhood’s cryptocurrency mine: ‘Like a jet that never leaves’ Now, Mr. French and his colleagues at Green Forests Work, a nonprofit group, hope to aid the decades-long effort to revive the American chestnut by bringing the trees back onto Appalachia’s former coal mines. At Old Coal Mines, the American Chestnut Tries for a Comeback 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z That complexity, that dichotomy, it has to be the starting point, if you want to try to understand Appalachia, and then there's all these other things too. J.D. Vance "misrepresented everything" and "leaves out" women 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Because I will not stand by quietly while Appalachia is used as a sacrifice zone to maintain the profit-driven status quo that is killing our ecosystem. Opinion | Why does the Mountain Valley Pipeline matter? 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z “Sacrificing the health and prosperity of communities in Appalachia, the Gulf Coast, Alaska, the Midwest, the Southwest, and other frontline communities around the country makes this side-deal profoundly disgraceful.” Hundreds of activist groups urge Democrats to betray Manchin on climate deal 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Joye Braun, 53, plans to travel from her home in Eagle Butte, S.D., to stand in solidarity with people from Appalachia, like Johnson, at the rally. Appalachian, Indigenous pipeline foes say climate deal ‘left us to burn’ 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z From the 1980s to the early 2000s, an estimated one million acres of previously forested area in the Appalachia were reclaimed this way as “legacy” mined lands. At Old Coal Mines, the American Chestnut Tries for a Comeback 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z If you think of Appalachia as being the spine of the United States, then you can literally say that this nation was built on the back of Appalachia. J.D. Vance "misrepresented everything" and "leaves out" women 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z In his music, playing, writing and teaching, he explored the little-known historical links between Irish music and music from Appalachia, the Spanish region of Galicia and Africa. Mick Moloney, champion of Irish music, dies at 77 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Other legislation created jobs in Appalachia, one of the poorest regions in the United States, and brought programs to Indian reservations. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Medical professionals and others on the front lines of the drug crisis say the scourge of addiction in Appalachia still needs advocates. Vance’s anti-drug charity enlisted doctor echoing Big Pharma 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z “Not everyone reads books or the New Yorker. The show reached the ordinary person. People in Appalachia went nuts for it.” ‘Where the soul meets the bone’: Why ‘Dopesick’s’ Beth Macy stays on the opioid beat 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Captivated by her access to first lady Lady Bird Johnson on a trip to Appalachia, she decided to stay and soon joined the Star as a society reporter. Joy Billington Doty, veteran Washington Star reporter, dies at 91 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z That means there’s going to be a higher incentive for clean energy developers to set up shop in Appalachia. Senate climate bill has West Virginia written all over it 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Storz opened fire on a group of officers June 30 at his home in Floyd County, a rural hilly county in Appalachia, according to police. Man accused of killing 3 police officers pleads not guilty 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z The concerns in Appalachia underscore the real-world fallout of the Democrats’ concessions to fossil fuels. Manchin’s Donors Include Pipeline Giants That Win in His Climate Deal 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z I have a deep pride in being from Appalachia despite an utter frustration at the way the region votes. Perspective | Climate change makes Appalachian life even harder. So why do we stay? 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z "He could do so much more for Appalachia, a lot more than he is, but he's chosen to only listen to industries," farmer Maury Johnson said. Joe Manchin’s price for supporting the climate change bill: A natural gas pipeline in his home state 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z In eastern Kentucky and central Appalachia, rainfall observed from July 26 to July 30 was over 600 percent of normal. 3 Downpours in 8 Days: How Extreme Rain Soaked the Midwest 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z She said it would help accelerate investment in clean energy projects around the U.S. and aid regions where fossil fuel industries are the primary source of economic activity, like in the Gulf Coast or Appalachia. Advocates: Senate bill means environmental health, also harm 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z More than 20 antique dulcimers, a stringed instrument native to Appalachia, were largely spared. After major floods, Kentucky grapples with the damage left behind 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z My family was safe this time, but the complex place I love was not; Appalachia was pummeled once again. Perspective | Climate change makes Appalachian life even harder. So why do we stay? 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z But central Appalachia — including Kentucky, but also West Virginia and parts of Ohio and Pennsylvania — is particularly vulnerable to this climate change impact. Three Reasons Appalachia’s Risk of Deadly Floods Keeps Rising 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z In rural areas with steep terrain, such as Appalachia, flash flooding can turn creeks and rivers into raging torrents. What Is a Flash Flood? 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z “We find ourselves in a position where people are left behind who should not be left behind,” Hamilton, who’s family is from Appalachia, said. Advocates: Senate bill means environmental health, also harm 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, top officials with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Agriculture Department will announce a plan to provide technical assistance to 11 impoverished communities in the South, Appalachia and tribal areas. White House Retrofits Infrastructure Bill to Better Help Poor Communities 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z She joins many others in this corner of Appalachia who see this latest disaster as a devastating blow to their lifestyle. Despite dangers, deep roots make Appalachia hard to leave 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Climate change is making rainstorms in Appalachia more severe. Three Reasons Appalachia’s Risk of Deadly Floods Keeps Rising 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z At least 30 people have now died in the Appalachia region of eastern Kentucky, as the region braces for more rainfall. Kentucky floods: Death toll rises to 30, 'hundreds' still missing 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z People need a scapegoat for their political frustrations, and Appalachia’s complicated history of exploitation and extraction makes it the perfect candidate. Opinion | The Kentucky flooding is horrific. So is some Democrats’ lack of sympathy. 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z On top of that, more flash flooding was possible in portions of Appalachia on Sunday and Monday as the latest storms roll through, the National Weather Service said. Death toll in Kentucky hits 26 amid renewed flood threat 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z When the 2008 financial crisis hit, she said, many young people moved back to rural communities in Appalachia because they had a place to live and child care options. Despite dangers, deep roots make Appalachia hard to leave 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z The enduring impact of mountaintop mining in central Appalachia adds another layer of complexity. Three Reasons Appalachia’s Risk of Deadly Floods Keeps Rising 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z JACKSON, Ky. — Kentucky’s governor said it could take weeks to find all the victims of flash flooding that killed at least 16 people when torrential rains swamped towns across Appalachia. Governor: Search for Kentucky flood victims could take weeks 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Although flooding on this scale is unprecedented, the people of eastern Kentucky and Appalachia are resilient, and we will continue living here and celebrating our shared culture, even when we don’t share each other’s politics. Opinion | The Kentucky flooding is horrific. So is some Democrats’ lack of sympathy. 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z As rainfall hammered Appalachia this week, water tumbled down hillsides and into valleys and hollows where it swelled creeks and streams coursing through small towns. Governor: Search for Kentucky flood victims could take weeks 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z In Appalachia, the people who live in the region, the roads, the buildings and the rainfall all were concentrated by river channels that flooded, she said. EXPLAINER: One weather system floods St. Louis and Kentucky 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z An industry that heavily contributed to the acceleration of climate change may have also altered Appalachia’s flood risks. Three Reasons Appalachia’s Risk of Deadly Floods Keeps Rising 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z As rainfall pounded Appalachia this week, water poured down hillsides and into valleys and hollows where it swelled creeks and streams coursing through small towns. Governor: Search for Kentucky flood victims could take weeks 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z In the rugged topography of central Appalachia, many places were still cut off on Friday, and determining the toll of devastation could take weeks. ‘We Need Help’: Death Toll Rises in Devastating Kentucky Flooding 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z The flooding came the same week that heavy rains caused deadly flooding and massive property damage in central Appalachia. St. Louis region hit by more flooding, prompting rescues 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z The storm sent water gushing from hillsides and surging out of streambeds in Appalachia, inundating homes, businesses and roads. Flooding in central Appalachia kills at least 8 in Kentucky 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z A 2019 project by Inside Climate News found that many areas in central Appalachia with increased flood risks overlap with the landscapes damaged by mining operations. Three Reasons Appalachia’s Risk of Deadly Floods Keeps Rising 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z Three consecutive days with an elevated threat of flash flooding in central and southern Appalachia as a plume of deep moisture parks over the region. Historic flooding in St. Louis kills at least 1, strands others 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z The relative remoteness of many towns in central Appalachia is a challenge in times like this, but it also fosters a particular kind of self-reliance. ‘We Need Help’: Death Toll Rises in Devastating Kentucky Flooding 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Wheeler had been a lobbyist for Murray Energy, a controversial coal firm in Appalachia, and was the Trump administration’s regulation-busting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Opinion | Youngkin’s appointments raise questions about his ‘moderate’ label 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Storz opened fire on a group of officers on June 30 at his home in Floyd County, a rural hilly county in Appalachia, according to police. Kentucky man indicted in slaying of 3 police officers 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Today, central Appalachia rests in a unique climate zone. Three Reasons Appalachia’s Risk of Deadly Floods Keeps Rising 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z As a national correspondent later, he tracked political campaigns and the Washington scene, taking occasional trips through the hills and hollows of Appalachia to write of a largely hidden Other America. Francis X. Clines, Lyrical Writer for The Times, Dies at 84 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z A similar observation could be made about many of the little towns throughout central Appalachia, which had been slowly dying for decades before they were drowned in a sudden flood. ‘We Need Help’: Death Toll Rises in Devastating Kentucky Flooding 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Experts say oil and gas communities should start planning now, or risk the fate of regions in Appalachia that suffered after the rise of cheap natural gas hobbled the coal industry. California Plans to Quit Oil. Resistance Is Fiercer Than You Think. 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z The three were killed Thursday night in an hourslong standoff at a home in Allen, a small town in the hills of Appalachia in eastern Kentucky. Flags to be lowered in Kentucky after 3 officers killed 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Precipitation, however, is already increasing across much of central Appalachia. Three Reasons Appalachia’s Risk of Deadly Floods Keeps Rising 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z In patches of rural Appalachia and the Rust Belt, health authorities were sounding alarms that a powerful painkiller called Opana had become the drug of choice among people abusing prescription pills. Behind the Scenes, McKinsey Guided Companies at the Center of the Opioid Crisis 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z In the mountains of central Appalachia, flooding can be terrifyingly sudden, with water rushing down barren, mine-stripped hillsides or pouring down in summer thunderstorms. ‘We Need Help’: Death Toll Rises in Devastating Kentucky Flooding 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z The executive director of Appalachians for Appalachia added that her organization also will apply for grants to help create a network that will help patients get access to abortion care, including out of state. Abortion foes, supporters map next moves after Roe reversal 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z Politically, it’s more aligned with Appalachia than the Golden State’s laissez-faire approach to life. Column: The real lesson of the Jan. 6 committee? Stop electing Trump sycophants to Congress 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z That’s a concern, given the number of communities nestled in Appalachia’s strip-mined mountains. Three Reasons Appalachia’s Risk of Deadly Floods Keeps Rising 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z The baby-blue-colored pills, the equivalent to a hit of heroin, became so ubiquitous that the smuggling route from Florida to Appalachia became known as the “Blue Highway.” Inside the sales machine of the ‘kingpin’ of opioid makers Anyone who has ever been to deep Appalachia knows that there is more than a grain of truth to the shibboleth that the only things there are coal and disability. Opinion | How to get West Virginia off coal 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z The reality, according to some elected officials and former classmates of the suspect in Broome County, an area of rolling hills in the northern reaches of Appalachia, is different. Broome County Contends With the Roots of a Racist Massacre 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Autumn Long, a project manager at the Appalachian Solar Finance Fund, which provides financial and technical assistance to solar energy projects in coal communities across Central Appalachia, disputed that notion. In West Virginia, the clean-energy transition rests on Joe Manchin 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z First, Appalachia has historically been a center for fossil fuel production and carbon extraction, through the coal industry and more recently oil and natural gas development. Three Reasons Appalachia’s Risk of Deadly Floods Keeps Rising 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z Appalachia "is nearing takeaway capacity limits," said analysts at Bank of America, who estimated there would be "little to no production growth" until new pipes enter service. U.S. natural gas production growth wanes as need arises 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Until a large-scale replacement industry takes root, the people of deep Appalachia will continue out of desperation to oppose anything that diminishes the coal industry and will express that sentiment at the ballot box. Opinion | How to get West Virginia off coal 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z “The last thing I’m going to do is create a false hope. People in Appalachia have been promised a lot of things that businesses never delivered.” Firm pays back $20M, insists petrochemical project viable 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Warren, and others, said that crypto could bring needed benefits to economically parched Appalachia. An Appalachian town was told a bitcoin mine would bring an economic boom. It got noise pollution and an eyesore. 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was going to Kentucky to tour a solar farm and participate in a roundtable discussion about clean energy investments across Appalachia. Biden, Cabinet fan out around nation to sell domestic agenda 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z For much of the past decade, Appalachia has been the workhorse of U.S. gas production, growing by an average of 36% per year from 2010-2019. U.S. natural gas production growth wanes as need arises 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Much of it is considered part of Appalachia — “an easy part of the state to stereotype,” Yancey noted. Perspective | This rural news start-up has two reporters and an editor with no broadband. Already, it’s made an impact. 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z Later in life, he produced a series of American songbooks, in which he reimagined American pop tunes, spirituals and folks songs, especially from his native Appalachia. George Crumb, quintessential composer of the avant-garde, dies at 92 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z While dozens of new cryptocurrency mines have opened across Appalachia since the China crackdown, Limestone isn’t the only one giving a mixed reception. An Appalachian town was told a bitcoin mine would bring an economic boom. It got noise pollution and an eyesore. 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z This is also a significant issue in Appalachia, due to the longevity of oil and gas' presence in the region. Study: Maintenance is a major driver of unaccounted-for emissions 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z When we think we can frack gas in Appalachia under the premise that it is good for the economy, the people in those places become disposable. At the Sierra Club, a Focus on Race, Gender and the Environment, Too 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z “But it’s really going to be legendary for Appalachia for generations to come. The story is just beginning.” How Joe Burrow's hometown followed the quarterback into the 'Who Dey' army 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Lives Lived: The composer George Crumb’s music featured instrumental and human sounds drawn from the traditions of Asia and his native Appalachia. The Mask Debate 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z The lion's share of current flood risk is borne by low-income white communities in places like Appalachia, but the new climate-driven risk that will arrive by 2050 will fall hardest on Black communities. US flood risk is about to explode — but not for the reasons you think 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z We estimated that the annual cost of flooding today is over US$32 billion nationwide, with an outsized burden on communities in Appalachia, the Gulf Coast and the Northwest. New Maps Show US Flood Damage Rising 26 Percent in Next 30 Years 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Heavy snow and strong winds were forecasted to begin in parts of the Carolinas and Appalachia on Friday evening, according to the National Weather Service. Winter storm to bring blizzard conditions to US East Coast 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z “That was 1980,” he told NPR years later, “and we were declaring all kinds of people useless — the old, the young, those who were laid off in Detroit, those in Appalachia, those who were disabled.” Edgar Cahn, champion of legal services for the poor, dies at 86 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Combs was born in Appalachia, Va. He began his federal career as a clerk with the Post Office Department and joined the EPA after it was formed in 1970. Community deaths 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Appalachia is one of the areas hardest hit by intergenerational poverty. Opinion | Improve life for West Virginia families 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z It would be a desperately needed economic boost drenched in symbolism: Renewable energy generated from a shuttered mine in the heart of Appalachia, where poverty grinds on in the aftermath of the coal industry’s demise. Coming Soon to This Coal County: Solar, in a Big Way 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z The smoke from those conflagrations spread far and wide, forcing people to breathe hazardous air up and down the West Coast and as far away as Appalachia. The American West went through climate hell in 2021. But there's still hope 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z According to the Reclaiming Appalachia Coalition, the $11.3 billion earmarked in the law for abandoned mine cleanup will result in nearly 3,000 jobs and $7.45 billion in economic output across Appalachia. West Virginia Governor Jim Justice faces justice for coal crimes in Kentucky 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Two players remembered Dames calling a player from Appalachia “trailer trash.” ‘Nobody cares’: NWSL players say U.S. Soccer failed to act on abuse claims against Red Stars coach 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Korey could trace the early plot points of his life while driving through his hometown streets here in rural Otsego County, on the northernmost tip of Appalachia. A veteran helped spread viral 9/11 conspiracy theories. Can he start over? Korey could trace the early plot points of his life while driving through his hometown streets here in Otsego County, on the northernmost tip of Appalachia. A veteran helped spread viral 9/11 conspiracy theories. Can he start over? 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z The price of coal from central Appalachia has increased about 60 percent over the past year, according to the EIA, with somewhat smaller increases in other regions. Fuel to power your car, heat your home or cook your food is all more expensive and driving inflation 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Since coal production started its steady decline in Appalachia, beginning in the 1990s, businesses, like Justice's, have followed a template to profit off of dying mines before abandoning them, often leaving them unreclaimed for years. West Virginia Governor Jim Justice faces justice for coal crimes in Kentucky 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Oklahoma City, Oklahoma-based Chesapeake said it plans to run one to three rigs in south Texas next year and two to three rigs in Appalachia, according to a presentation. Chesapeake Energy boosts 2021 oil output forecasts by 1 million barrels 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z His gerrymandered district sprawls across 12 Ohio counties, from impoverished parts of Appalachia to the posh Columbus suburbs. Biden backs Ohio Rep. Allison Russo in race for US House 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z The heart of the industry is China’s Appalachia, Shanxi Province, 300 miles southwest of Beijing. China Hurries to Burn More Coal, Putting Climate Goals at Risk 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Africans, some who had escaped enslavement by using the Underground Railroad that wound through Appalachia, settled in and began hollowing out gourds to make an instrument native to their homeland. Perspective | Virginia’s multicultural country music history is a lesson more of us need to learn 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z The people who do this work live in what was once known as Appalachia, now dubbed “Scrappalachia” for its “vast orchards of scrap.” Review: In the apocalyptic Appalachia of 'Trashlands,' survivors scrape by on love and art 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Relative to other states, large numbers of West Virginia grandparents are raising their grandchildren — a partial legacy of the opioid pandemic that tore through Appalachia. Sen. Joe Manchin wants to restrict who gets the child tax credit. These West Virginians may pay the price if he gets his way. 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z For instance, the report says, Royal Dutch Shell has replaced gas-fired pumps with electric ones in Appalachia, and it’s installed new electric power drives to control the operation of valves at sites in Canada. Russia allows methane leaks at planet’s peril Justice’s strategy, his top pandemic advisers say, is designed to reach people in Appalachia, who often distrust or feel let down by the government. West Virginia’s governor wants residents to get vaccinated for his dog. But not enough are getting the shot. 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Justice’s strategy, his top pandemic advisers say, is designed to people in Appalachia, who often distrust or feel let down by the government. West Virginia’s governor wants residents to get vaccinated for his dog. But not enough are getting the shot. 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Across Appalachia, abandoned coal mines leaking toxic pollutants are a threat to public health. Ferries in Alaska. Rail in Oregon. States Dream Big on Infrastructure Funds. 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z "I am a Caucasian cisgender female and first-generation college student from Appalachia who is of Scottish, British, and Norwegian heritage," wrote Duncan Lane in her syllabus under a section introducing herself. Virginia Tech professor apologizes for being White, straight cisgendered female 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Democrats "turned their backs on Appalachia," said Carl Simmons, 60, a coal company purchasing agent - and now, it seemed to him, they had turned their backs in Afghanistan, too. To Trump voters, chaos in Afghanistan 'another betrayal' by Biden 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Working together means defying some of the stereotypes of people in Appalachia, said Young, who believes the self-reliance of her West Virginia neighbors is often misconstrued as being backward and inward-looking. West Virginia’s governor wants residents to get vaccinated for his dog. But not enough are getting the shot. 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Working together means defying some of the stereotypes of people in Appalachia, said Young, who believes the self-reliance of her West Virginia neighbors is often misconstrued as being backward and inward looking. West Virginia’s governor wants residents to get vaccinated for his dog. But not enough are getting the shot. 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The army of miners that came to Blair Mountain was made up of Black and white people, new immigrants and people with deep roots in Appalachia. A Century Ago, Miners Fought in a Bloody Uprising. Few Know About It Today. 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z But people across the heartland report much lower amounts of asset income, and in Appalachia and the Deep South, asset income is negligible. Wealth without working: King County ranks 8th in U.S. for income from assets 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z The flooding ravaged this swath of Appalachia, destroying roads and bridges, washing cars away and displacing an estimated 500 families. Harrowing North Carolina floods left farm animals stranded, lifted houses off their foundations 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, across Appalachia, the Deep South and much of the Midwest, it stagnated, representing a negligible source of income. U.S. wealth gap rises with Jackson Hole coming at the top 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z The figures show continued migration to the South and Southwest and population losses in the Mississippi Delta and Appalachia. Census shows US is diversifying, white population shrinking 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z With his blue-collar upbringing and law-school education, he was comfortable both on Capitol Hill and in the mining country of Appalachia and the Midwest, lobbying for labor protections or rallying on the picket line. Richard Trumka, powerful labor organizer who led AFL-CIO, dies at 72 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z That might mean installing solar panels in Philadelphia, tending to sustainable urban farms in New York City, or building new career pathways for former coal communities in Appalachia. Reconciliation could create a new kind of climate job 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z Thanks for the July 8 front-page article about the reception of stimulus checks in Appalachia, “Happy to get a check, and not.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: The atrocities in Tigray are horrific 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Using data from L2, a national voter file vendor, The Post estimates that nearly 6.5 million out of the 7.5 million Trump voters in the Appalachia region were eligible to receive a stimulus check. The stimulus helped these Trump voters pay rent and bills. But they blame it for a range of economic ills. 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z But he also said he would prefer a peaceful secession of Appalachia to a violent conflict, according to the record, and that all his preparations were for “defense.” Man charged with entering Capitol on Jan. 6 later began forming militia-like group under guise of ‘Bible study,’ prosecutors say 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z The problem hits hard in Appalachia, as well as in central Mississippi and Alabama, the colonias along the Texas-Mexico border, the Navajo Nation in the Southwest, and California’s Central Valley. After generations of hauling water, a corner of Appalachia still waits for a better future 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z The first arrived when pharmaceutical companies campaigned to expand prescribing painkillers and addiction spread through struggling, predominantly-white communities like Appalachia. In pandemic, drug overdose deaths soar among Black Americans 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z A fourth- or fifth-generation native of the hollows of Appalachia, living in her grandparents’ former home, she embodies the idea of education as a bridge to a more promising future. A Fading Coal County Bets on Schools, but There’s One Big Hitch 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z But the flow of money into Appalachia doesn’t seem to have changed many hearts and minds. The stimulus helped these Trump voters pay rent and bills. But they blame it for a range of economic ills. 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Weaver said there’s an assumption that Mr. Vance will relate to voters of all backgrounds because he grew up in Appalachia. J.D. Vance, author of ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ poised for Senate run, crusade against ‘woke’ America 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z In 2019, Virginia Tech researchers tested 21 springs in five states in Appalachia, including West Virginia. After generations of hauling water, a corner of Appalachia still waits for a better future 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z But Petersburg manages a rare combination: It suffers the systemic urban issues of poverty and neglect while also coping with a hollowed-out economy like the coal towns of Appalachia. Democratic primary for Virginia governor makes a star out of the city of Petersburg — and its problems 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z She was nominated by President Biden to the post in the federal-state partnership that promotes economic development across West Virginia and parts of 12 other states in Appalachia. Manchin courtship: WVa senator joins Jill Biden at clinic 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Chesapeake is currently operating seven rigs across its portfolio, with three rigs in Appalachia, three rigs in Haynesville and one rig in South Texas. Chesapeake Energy posts profit after bankruptcy exit, declares dividend 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z He is particularly enthusiastic about efforts to invest in highways, clean water infrastructure, and broadband in Huntington and across Appalachia. Can the Biden Agenda Fix Middle America’s Deepest Problem? 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Yet the “constellation of drivers and impacts in Appalachia is incredibly unique.” After generations of hauling water, a corner of Appalachia still waits for a better future 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z Federal and state officials have another question to answer, as communities across the country - but particularly here in Appalachia - face the realities of a changing economic and energy landscape. Editorial Roundup: Ohio 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z In Appalachia, Cross explained, the fervor with which people sidestep the vaccine is ratcheted up by history and tradition. Faith, freedom, fear all factor into rural America’s COVID vaccine skepticism 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z Indeed, Appalachia will be the crucial test case for our overall ability to accelerate clean energy progress by intensifying the economic benefits for fossil-dependent and fossil-exposed communities. Biden's Earth Day breakthrough: The best week for climate policy in recent history 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z They can include residents of Appalachia, minorities and people of color, students with intellectual or physical disabilities, and students who attended low-performing public high schools. Attorney donates $1.5M to WVa college for research program 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z The report seeks an immediate focus on the 25 most coal-dependent areas, with Appalachia top of the list, in addition to Alaska and states in the west such as Wyoming and Utah. Biden working group targets jobs for fossil fuel communities 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z However, he has vehemently denied that those tweets led to him being forced off the board of AppHarvest, a green agriculture start-up which has several large sites in Appalachia. JD Vance: Trump whisperer turned Senate hopeful 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z This week he resigned from the board of a Kentucky company that uses green technology to produce food in Appalachia. ‘Hillbilly’ to Capitol Hill? Author eyes Senate bid in Ohio 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z The grants will aid programs that address Appalachia’s substance abuse crisis by creating or expanding programs dedicated to recovery from drug addiction. Appalachian recovery programs get millions in federal grants 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z There is significant local opposition to resort development of the land outside the borders of the Red River Gorge, one of Appalachia’s most beloved natural attractions. Land sold for resort planned near Kentucky’s Red River Gorge 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Students will study a parasitic orchid species native to Appalachia. West Virginia University gets grant for high school students 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Mrs. Nelson was born Carrie Lee Dotson in Wise, Va., in the Cumberland Mountains of Appalachia, the ninth of 10 children, and she grew up in an area known as “Dotson Holler.” Community deaths 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z A former governor of Michigan, Granholm pushed for provisions aimed at blunting the impact of job loss in Appalachia and other parts of the country dependent on fossil fuel industries, particularly through money for retraining. White House dramatically increased tax proposal as it sought to address tensions over next big spending plan 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z An organization called Americans Helping Americans, which works in Appalachia, donated $100,000 to the Downtown Beattyville Alliance, said Mays, who also heads the city’s Main Street and economic development programs. Residents, businesses in flood-damaged area work to recover 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z It depicts his family’s roots in Appalachia and their struggles. ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author J.D. Vance gets boost from Peter Thiel for likely Ohio Senate run 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z “This project will help build a stronger economic foundation, drawing on Appalachia’s unique heritage to create real opportunity in Breathitt County,” Beshear said in a statement. Old jail to be renovated, turned into tourist destination 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z To a number of Ohio Republicans, the importance of their eventual nominee pales in comparison to what they believe is the fundamental political math of a state that absorbs the Rust Belt and Appalachia. Democrats Want a Stronger Edge in the Senate. Ohio Could Be Crucial. 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z But maybe he had an advantage from what he called the “moonshine culture here in Appalachia.” WV distiller ‘shines’ in national brewing competition 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Manchin, though, sees himself not as a seeker of pork-barrel projects but as a champion for policies that aid Appalachia and the Rust Belt. Manchin, key Senate swing vote, boosts West Virginia’s hopes 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Decades later, President Barack Obama dedicated millions of dollars to work force development projects in Appalachia. The Promises to Coal Country Are Familiar, but Can Biden Deliver? 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z “Advanced welding is a growing field across Appalachia, and this training program will provide hard-working West Virginians with the skills they need to fill the stable, good-paying jobs in the manufacturing industry,” Democratic U.S. Marshall University gets funds for advanced welding program 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z But others criticized those proposed changes as well as his handling of a large hepatitis A outbreak that spread through rural Appalachia starting in 2017, ultimately sickening more than 5,000 Kentuckians and killing 62. Montana health director nominee faces Senate confirmation 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Domestically, it was to be an economic game changer, bringing jobs back to the abandoned coal towns of Appalachia, and an environmental game changer, due to the low levels of CO2 in natural gas. Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z As valuable as those dollars are to the hungry families of southeastern Ohio, the difference between charitable assets per capita in counties outside of Appalachia versus those within Appalachia remains stark. Editorial Roundup: Ohio 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z Near the end of the Obama administration, for example, the federal government poured $38.8 million into two dozen economic and work force development projects, many of them in central Appalachia. The Promises to Coal Country Are Familiar, but Can Biden Deliver? 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z “We wanted to preserve the area as a kind of Appalachia.” 'Rock stars of American cheese': the enduring legacy of Cowgirl Creamery 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z But in spring 2018, the disease began to spread in Appalachia, which had thinly staffed county health departments. Montana health director nominee faces Senate confirmation 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z “The honest answer of it, from our perspective, is that West Virginia and Appalachia deserve an outsized piece of any federal recovery policy.” West Virginia Has Everyone’s Attention. What Does It Really Need? 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Thirty-two counties in eastern and southern Ohio are considered part of Appalachia. Editorial Roundup: Ohio 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z |
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