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Orion Magazine - Creative Economies in the Coal Fields

I GREW UP IN APPALACHIA, just outside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in Tennessee. ....

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American Democracy Is At A Low Point. We Need To Strengthen It At The Local Level.

If we want to continue our shared American experiment, we must foster communities with strong civic health. ....

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Kentucky Artist Behind 'No Hate In My Holler' Debuts A Mural Featuring A Town's Legendary Midwife - West Virginia Public Broadcasting : West Virginia Public Broadcasting

A mural in Pound, Virginia, depicts Nancy Mullins Shores a longtime midwife who delivered many of the town’s residents in the 20th century. The mural was designed and painted by Lacy Hale, an eastern Kentucky artist known for painting murals across central Appalachia, including one that garnered controversy for its imagery of an opossum amid pokeweed. ....

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Eastern Kentucky mutual aid groups need your help ahead of the holidays

Two grassroots groups are hosting holiday drives to benefit residents in different parts of eastern Kentucky. ....

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When the creek does rise, can music survive?

How does a scene survive when disaster strikes its venues, music schools, rare instruments and priceless archives all at once? The musicians of flood-ravaged eastern Kentucky have a few answers. ....

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