100 Days in Appalachia Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

100 Days in Appalachia

“Take your average white person in America, and you add Christian identity, they move up the racism index and not down.” Read our interview with Robert P. Jones on his newest book “White Too Long”: https://t.co/Uf5Tm8o6kT https://t.co/Qs7XRrqXpy

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100 Days in Appalachia

“You see, like Loretta Lynn herself, my grandmother was a coal miner’s daughter from eastern Kentucky. The song didn’t just tell Loretta’s story, it told of Mamaw’s life in Hacker Hollow.” Remembering #LorettaLynn, the coal miner’s daughter: https://t.co/ZjNIptjFGG https://t.co/IcZ0OECLoI

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Writer Ivy Brashear shares the story of her Granny Della, a “fierce storyteller who had the most enormous zest for life and love,” in this essay originally published by @WVUPRESS’ “Appalachian Reckoning.” Revisit the essay: https://t.co/ozfJJxvENy https://t.co/hD7RQuFt0h

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“I like to think of myself as my own role model. My future self – the picture of what I see myself being – is what inspires me." Christian is featured in our latest series Mountain Grown, which looks at masculinity in #Appalachia. Explore his story: https://t.co/haczOJeABe https://t.co/8xqFbsk9CQ

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100 Days in Appalachia

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Frederick Douglass made more than half a dozen visits to Central #Appalachia after the Civil War, but his history here is largely unknown. But this historian is working to tell the stories of Douglass’s work. Read more from @wvpublicnews: https://t.co/ek20uGUAtb https://t.co/kdZq2YG06Z

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In the Q&A, Affrilachian poet Bernard Clay spoke with Kendra Winchester of @ReadAppalachia about his latest work “English Lit”, an autobiographical poetry debut that took decades to complete: https://t.co/iLNGyWjaB5 https://t.co/SuzeNf4QQe

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‘Ginseng Diggers’: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia Read an excerpt from the latest @KentuckyPress release: https://bit.ly/3wqXqKd https://t.co/nNuMDwjuxr

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In “Blood Creek” author Kimberly Collins writes about the strikes that gripped the southern WV coalfields in the early 20th Century from the perspective of the women who lived through them. Revisit the 2019 piece from @wvpublic: https://t.co/AgFNchOIZY #WomensHistoryMonth https://t.co/ePttCc1jbp

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Kentucky photographer and filmmaker Jared Hamilton’s latest project is an ode to his home place, but one that anyone familiar with Appalachia will recognize. Read his interview with @JWrightWV about “Familiar Paths”: https://bit.ly/3lhLlAP https://t.co/gpiS1bjtZU

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