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/ Friends of KJ Taylor give interviews to the media at the site where he was shot two days prior in Charleston, W.Va. on Friday, April 9, 2021. Gabriela Hasbun Anna Sale, author of Let s Talk about Hard Things. She s also the creator and host of Death, Sex & Money, the podcast from WNYC Studios. West Virginia native Anna Sale is host of the popular podcast “Death, Sex & Money.” It s a podcast that talks about, as she says, “the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more.” Sale’s new book, “Let’s Talk About Hard Things,” is about having frank conversations about topics that can make us uncomfortable, including relationships and death. ....
Lexi Browning/DIGDEEP McDowell County residents collect donated water during a water distribution at Five Loaves and Two Fishes Food Bank on Saturday, March 6, 2021, in Kimball, West Virginia. “In Deep”: Small Town, Big Struggles This week on Inside Appalachia, we hear a radio documentary from the podcast “In Deep.” The show, which is produced by APM Reports, takes a look at the water infrastructure in Letcher County, Kentucky. The county is dependent on coal and is currently dealing with the consequences of failing water infrastructure. Tackling The Issue From All Angles In McDowell County, West Virginia, the pipes are so bad that many people don’t have running water at home. A local food bank is working with a California-based non-profit and the local utility company to bridge the water gap. They’re trying new technologies, repairing the old ones and setting up standalone systems. ....
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. ....
Denison Baldwin and Thomas Felts were part of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, ca.1912. This week on the show, we’ll hear an interview with historian Bob Hutton, who recently wrote an article about the Baldwin-Felts gunmen, who did the dirty work of Appalachia’s capitalists, even against their neighbors. We’ll also meet instrument-makers who are determined to find a way, even if it’s using the remnants of a refrigerator box, and women who are using poetry to undercut the wrong ideas people have about mountaineers. And author Robert Gipe has just completed his trilogy, which concludes the turbulent story of several generations of an eastern Kentucky family. At the center of his first book “Trampoline” is Dawn Jewell, a spitfire whose mother struggled with addiction. Gipe’s new book “Pop” follows Nicolette, the daughter of Dawn Jewell. Nicolette struggles to cope with her environment, and her family, while working to make something for herself. In this c ....
This is an encore episode we originally aired last November. It was the first episode Mason Adams and Caitlin Tan ever hosted together, and they began by asking each other a little about their back stories, and what they look forward to about hosting Inside Appalachia. No Ordinary Cookie During the pandemic, many people have turned to baking as a new hobby. In fact, flour sales nearly doubled in 2020 compared to 2019. Check out this recipe for cookies made with buckwheat flour. Rachel Greene, one of our Folkways reporters, has been talking with bakers who make pies and cookies with flour that’s ground the old-fashioned way at a stone mill. As Greene discovered, along with the cookie recipe, bakers in Western North Carolina are making all kinds of baked goods with stone-milled flour. ....