This week on Inside Appalachia, can the internet rebuild Appalachia? We ask sci-fi novelist and tech writer Cory Doctorow. Also, fish fries have been a staple in Charleston, West Virginia’s Black community for generations. We learn more about them. And, hop on board the Cass Scenic Railroad for a visit with the people who keep the steam trains running.
Liz McCormick sat down with Pancake while she was in Shepherdstown to discuss what inspires her writing, what's next in her career and how Appalachia has evolved since she wrote "Strange as This Weather Has Been."
Barbara Kingsolver, whose Pulitzer-winning “Demon Copperhead” offered a variegated portrait of the region, guides readers through a literary landscape “as bracing and complex as a tumbling mountain creek.”
If you can find your way past the minimal complaints, there is still no doubt that Michigan is one of the most beautiful, and welcoming, states in the U.S.
If you can find your way past the minimal complaints, there is still no doubt that Michigan is one of the most beautiful, and welcoming, states in the U.S.