Inside Appalachia

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, Associate Producer Abby Neff spoke with Michael Snyder, a photographer and filmmaker, about his new book "Alleghania: A Central Appalachian Folklore Anthology." Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/xXzCeNT

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, we remember Travis Stimeling, a WVU professor and musician who died suddenly in November 2023. Folkways Reporter Zack Harold spoke to some of Stimeling's students, friends and colleagues in 2024. Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/vZOSK5d

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, an international photographer turns his lens toward home. 📸 Also, after Hurricane Helene, whitewater rafting guides 🛶 are adapting to diminished business and changed rivers. Listen now. 👇 buff.ly/SDPTIOP

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, we revisit the World's Largest Teapot with WVPB's Zander Aloi, who took a trip to Chester, West Virginia in 2023 to learn the history of the roadside attraction. 🫖 Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/GOdZRMo

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, we revisit a story from 2024, when Folkways Reporter Rebecca Williams spoke with DeDe Styles in Swannanoa, North Carolina about her creation of natural dyes with weeds. 🌿 Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/znqWvfN

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, we revisit this story from 2020 by Host Mason Adams who explored the Dinosaur Kingdom II with artist Mark Cline’s in Natural Bridge, Virginia. 🦕. Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/HXpk87Y

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, dinos fight Civil War soldiers at a theme park throwback — Dinosaur Kingdom II in Natural Bridge, Virginia. Also, one person’s roadside weed is another’s “golden” treasure. So says a North Carolina fiber artist. buff.ly/SDPTIOP

This week #InsideAppalachia 🌄, Host Mason Adams spent time with crisis teams in Huntington and Princeton, West Virginia who work with people in mental health crises. Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/k5ALuXv

This week #InsideAppalachia 🌄, states have moved to offer resources to help with gambling addiction. News Director Eric Douglas spoke with Sheila Moran of First Choice Services, which runs the 1-800-GAMBLER helpline. Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/HXHVCN7

This week #InsideAppalchia 🌄, WVPB's Curtis Tate spoke with neighbors of the Mountain Valley Pipeline who are still uneasy about the pipeline's effects on their lives and property. Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/BVv005A

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, people with mental health challenges or substance use disorder often end up in jail. But crisis response teams offer another way. Click/tap the link below 👇 to listen to this episode now. 🎧 buff.ly/SpZDuFh

This week #InsideAppalachia 🌄, we visit Roanoke Public Library with Host Mason Adams, where every week for the last 15 years, kids have gotten together to play Dungeons & Dragons. 🐲 🎲 Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/3Z7202X

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, we remember renowned TN luthier, Jean Horner, whose fiddles were played at Carnegie Hall and the Grand Ole Opry. His shop was a destination for fiddle fanatics. buff.ly/zXvdJAl

This week #InsideAppalachia🌄, Host Mason Adams spoke with Andrew Jones, a reporter for the Asheville Watchdog, about Mission Hospital and its problems that have been scrutinized and even federally investigated. Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/jvpkKFf

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, an immersion school in North Carolina is trying to revitalize the Cherokee language with the help of a printmaking class. Tap below to listen. 👇🎧 #WVPB #appalachia #appalachianproud #cherokee buff.ly/POKCx4F

This week #InsideAppalachia🌄, we have a new story by Reporter Tiara Brown with support from Black by God, the West Virginian about a West Virginia man who is reviving an historic Black coal camp through farming. Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/LBcWlbo

In 2023, #InsideAppalachia🌄 Folkways Reporter Connie Kitts brought us the story about the tradition of poetry in Jeanette Wilson's family. The poems of her grandfather and uncle are read during the Juneteenth celebration in Tazewell, Virginia. buff.ly/3jUppPl

Last summer, Folkways Reporter Traci Phillips visited the Norman Jordan African American Arts and Heritage Academy in Westover, West Virginia. We revisit this story this week #InsideAppalachia🌄. Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/hOLFeY2

This week #InsideAppalachia🌄, we revisit a conversation with Host Mason Adams and former Kentucky poet laureate Frank X Walker about his book, "Load in Nine Times." Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/v4DpdeB

This week, #InsideAppalachia🌄, we revisit a conversation between Host Mason Adams and Steve Watkins, author of the book "The Mine Wars: The Bloody Fight for Workers’ Rights in the West Virginia Coalfields." Tap👇to listen 🎧. buff.ly/x4zqKRq