Connie Kitts-Bailey topping off gingerbread cake with her cousin Alice Bailey Nunn. Nunn s dad, Jim Bailey, made the sorghum used in the recipe.
Have you ever noticed how conversations about food can lead us to learn surprising things about each other? In this week’s episode of
Inside Appalachia, we talk about holiday foods. We’ve got recipes for things like cranberry salad, sorghum gingerbread, and pecan pie. But more than recipes, this show is about the power of memory, and tradition.
Co-host Caitlin Tan shares her grandmother’s recipe for stollen, a special German sweet bread that she makes each Christmas. And co-host Mason Adams sits down with his mom to talk about baking cookies during the holidays. Their conversation led her to divulge a secret. “Oh goodness, I love to make cookies.
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More than 30 members of the combined American-Austrian family gathered for a reunion in Pickens, W.Va., in August 2019.
If you live in Appalachia, or for that matter, if you’ve ever lived in Appalachia, you are a part of our family. It defines us. This week on
Inside Appalachia we’ll hear about family found in unexpected places like a West Virginia family who got a letter from a sister in Austria they didn’t even know they had.
And a young man in North Carolina was inspired to learn old-time music when he saw a jaw-dropping performance by a fiddle player named Fred McBride. Turns out they’re related.
Protesters at a Black Lives Matter March in Marion, Virginia in July 2020.
What are communities in Appalachia doing to address racism? The death of George Floyd and others at the hands of police sparked hundreds of demonstrations over the summer, and a national reckoning on police reform and systemic racism.
Those conversations are happening here in Appalachia, too. Many mountain people organized Black Lives Matter marches in small towns across the region. And they’re taking a hard look at laws and policies that treat people unfairly.
In this episode of
Inside Appalachia, we look at a community in Pittsburgh and its struggles with urban renewal. We’ll also hear about a community in West Virginia that is one of the few cities in the nation to establish an independent police review board. We’ll also learn more about how Black Lives Matter marches can turn tense as counter-protesters and marchers face off.