The West Side| 100 Days in Appalachia
On a Friday afternoon, the washers and dryers run nonstop at Bream Memorial Presbyterian Church, in Charleston, West Virginia. Three bright-white tiled shower rooms line one wall. MREs – Meals Ready-to-Eat – sit on shelves behind a small wooden reception desk. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, the church serves lunch […]| 100 Days in Appalachia
Depending on who you ask, the development of the Elk City district on the West Side of Charleston, West Virginia, is either “gentrification” or “revitalization” – though some will say both. Karen Williams, a lifelong Charleston resident who grew up on the West Side, says the transition from homes and […]| 100 Days in Appalachia
Karen Williams’ father, Charles Price, was the first Black graduate of West Virginia University’s College of Law, one of two land grant institutions in the state. His office once sat on Court Street, in Charleston, West Virginia’s Triangle District. As a child during the civil rights struggles of the 1950s […]| 100 Days in Appalachia
Appalachia| 100 Days in Appalachia
The demand for clean water in McDowell County is but one element of a groundswell of community-based activism to reclaim and revitalize resources.| 100 Days in Appalachia
Davis and Ware want to use the church that once divided McDowell County into miners and management to reclaim what has been taken from them.| 100 Days in Appalachia
Appalachia| 100 Days in Appalachia
