Kentucky Pull Candy Harder Than It Looks
You can find recipes for pull candy online. But be prepared to fail, if you ve never made it before. It s hard to get it right. But it s amazingly soft and creamy to eat.
Inside Appalachia Folkways Reporter Zack Harold caught up with a man who s a confectionary master.
Zack Harold Joe Parcell of Winfield, West Virginia, won’t even attempt making candy unless the thermometer is below 50 degrees due to the difficult process.
Crystal Wilkinson Named Kentucky’s ‘21-’22 Poet Laureate
Crystal Wilkinson is the first Black woman in Kentucky to hold the title of Poet Laureate. Wilkinson is an associate professor of English at the University of Kentucky. Over her career, Wilkinson has focused much of her writing on Black women and their experiences in Appalachia.