In Jonesborough, TN, the Town’s Big Festival is Back After Helene Canceled It Last Year
Local businesses say the National Storytelling Festival — and other tourism — is helpful, but not a substitute for a local customer base.| 100 Days in Appalachia
The New Rural Landscape| 100 Days in Appalachia
Local businesses say the National Storytelling Festival — and other tourism — is helpful, but not a substitute for a local customer base.| 100 Days in Appalachia
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EQT, the lawsuit alleges, “knowingly” exposed the children and their families to “hazardous, carcinogenic and radioactive pollutants, sickening them and forcing them to leave their childhood homes.”| 100 Days in Appalachia
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As opposition to data centers mounts locally in communities across the country, the decisive fights over AI’s infrastructure are unfolding in state legislatures. The post The New Power Brokers: Big Tech, State Lawmakers, and the Grid appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia.| 100 Days in Appalachia
To fully appreciate the beauty of Tucker County, you must visit. Nestled at 3,500 feet in the gorgeous Allegheny Mountains along the Blackwater River, the town of Davis is at the highest elevation of any municipality in West Virginia; it exudes a top-of-the-world vibe. The downtown blocks of adjacent Thomas, […]| 100 Days in Appalachia
Rehab hospitals that help people recover from major surgeries and injuries have become a highly lucrative slice of the health care business. But federal data and inspection reports show that some run by the dominant company, Encompass Health Corp., and other for-profit corporations have had rare but serious incidents of […]| 100 Days in Appalachia
On a Tuesday afternoon, Michelle Allen is in her office in an empty Robert C. Byrd High School. Allen is the career and technical instructor at RCB and also runs GameChanger, the school’s prevention education club. In an empty classroom, Allen walks over to a desk where a three-ring binder […] The post Politically-Connected W.Va. GameChanger Program Receives Opioid Funds Amid Doubts from Experts appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia.| 100 Days in Appalachia
As the Justice Department slashes funding to programs across the U.S., Wilkes County's planned recovery court was halted before it started.| 100 Days in Appalachia
Reporter Laura Harbert Allen’s coverage of the debate surrounding a proposed power plant in Tucker County, West Virginia, has been honored by Report for America. The nonprofit that places reporters in newsrooms around the country selected Allen’s story as the first place winner in the news category in its annual […]| 100 Days in Appalachia
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
Here in Appalachia, we are, like it or not, voices of a place. I find that so many of my conversations with other journalists, writers and community members explore the myriad ways we navigate and relate to Appalachia. It is a place of baggage and struggle and poetry and loss. […]| 100 Days in Appalachia
Rural areas like Tucker County are caught in an AI-fueled tech boom that strains energy infrastructure and depletes natural resources.| 100 Days in Appalachia
What is Appalachia, and why should you care? Since the election, media organizations from The Guardian to CNN to The Washington Post to the BBC have dropped into Appalachia in a quest to make sense of what, for many, seemed to take the world by surprise. We were less surprised. […]| 100 Days in Appalachia
Quietly, over the past 15 years, small group Bible-study-style gatherings near Parkersburg, W.Va. have formed the foundation for a movement that punches above its weight in terms of political influence.| 100 Days in Appalachia
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Not only has Childers reformed how Appalachians think about addiction and religion, but he's re-cast the way the rest of the country views our story too.| 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
We need the world to hear us when we say firmly: This moment is about so much more than the rise of Trump.| 100 Days in Appalachia
I’ve been thinking about our efforts since 2016 to collectively rewrite a different future, one where Appalachia, especially young Appalachia, is fully cognizant of the dystopia and hopeful nonetheless.| 100 Days in Appalachia
Reclaiming and Revitalizing Resources in West Virginia’s Southern Coalfields The demand for clean water in McDowell County is but one element of a groundswell of community-based activism to reclaim and revitalize resources. Read More In West Virginia’s Southern Coalfields, a Grassroots ‘Jubilee’ Davis and Ware want to use the church […]| 100 Days in Appalachia
Reclaiming and Revitalizing Resources in West Virginia’s Southern Coalfields The demand for clean water in McDowell County is but one element of a groundswell of community-based activism to reclaim and revitalize resources. Read More In West Virginia’s Southern Coalfields, a Grassroots ‘Jubilee’ Davis and Ware want to use the church […]| 100 Days in Appalachia
Reclaiming and Revitalizing Resources in West Virginia’s Southern Coalfields The demand for clean water in McDowell County is but one element of a groundswell of community-based activism to reclaim and revitalize resources. Read More In West Virginia’s Southern Coalfields, a Grassroots ‘Jubilee’ Davis and Ware want to use the church […]| 100 Days in Appalachia
Young people in Appalachia are being shaped in an era fraught with political unrest, surrounded by almost insurmountable global issues that will shape the world they inherit. But all at once, they are expected to both save the world and care far less about things too serious for them to understand. Here, we give young Appalachians space to think out loud, examine and amplify issues they know are impacting their identities, their communities and, by extension, their politics.| 100 Days in Appalachia
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The First Baptist Church in Roan Mountain, TN was devastated by a flood nearly thirty years ago. This time around, they knew they could help.| 100 Days in Appalachia
Of the many culture shocks I experienced moving from Ohio to the remote eastern Kentucky county of around 10,000 people my grandmother’s family calls home, none was greater than the stark contrast in schools. The district I grew up in, just outside of the Dayton city limits, was by no […]| 100 Days in Appalachia
In the wake of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin promising his vote for a major climate change bill in exchange for the pipeline's remaining permits, people in the project's path are torn on their next steps.| 100 Days in Appalachia
From an attempted assassination and an historic withdrawal from the race, the 2024 election has already had more twists and turns than an Aaron Sorkin screenplay. I should be forgiven, then, for how emotionally invested I became in the veepstakes. I did not imagine ever caring this much about running […]| 100 Days in Appalachia
Yemen is probably not the first place one thinks of when thinking of Appalachia and its damaging flooding. But maybe it should be.| 100 Days in Appalachia
Appalachian communities are still reeling from the damage wrought by Hurricane Helene. More than 230 people have died. Homes have washed away. And with major interstates likely to remain closed for months, many folks are struggling to access basic necessities. And while addressing immediate survival needs remains a top priority, […]| 100 Days in Appalachia
Six employees died at the Erwin, Tennessee plastics plant as Hurricane Helene caused widespread devastation across the region.| 100 Days in Appalachia
There is nothing Papaw Jordan likes complaining about more than property taxes. It infuriates him that the government can make him pay for a piece of property he owns, the only home he has in a country where — from colonization to the the “manifest destiny” of westward colonial expansion, […]| 100 Days in Appalachia
Here’s some context and clarity about the relationship between dominion theology and the NAR, the “apostles” and “prophets” who lead this movement, and what it all means for our politics.| 100 Days in Appalachia
The Democratic Party has been ignoring rural and working class people for decades. Now, they’re trying to pay more attention.| 100 Days in Appalachia
•Generation Zeitgeist| 100 Days in Appalachia
At the West Virginia University Crisis Support and Recovery Center, the staff takes hope seriously. H-O-P-E is even spelled out in the steel railing inside their living quarters.| 100 Days in Appalachia
Many young Appalachians, regardless of later political affiliation, can recall the childhood moments they learned how free they were to voice their own thoughts about contentious topics with family members. Julia Pritt, 24, originally from Hurricane, West Virginia, recalled her excitement the week gay marriage was legalized in June 2015. […]| 100 Days in Appalachia
The number of white nationalist groups operating in Appalachia has increased, according to a recent report by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The rise coincides with a national surge of far-right, anti-government and anti-LGBTQ+ groups, which the SPLC warns could undermine democracy heading into the 2024 presidential election. “With a […]| 100 Days in Appalachia
Isabella McMillian, an 18-year-old philosophy major in Boone, North Carolina, is proud of her identity as an Appalachian. She loves the beauty, culture and history of the region, and is happy that she gets to be a part of it. However, as a queer woman, she says watching people she […]| 100 Days in Appalachia
