Walking down the streets of Greensboro, Pennsylvania, it feels a bit like a ghost town. There are houses, business signs, a post office, but only two cars drive by in 10 minutes and no one is walking the streets. The small town in southern Pennsylvania is just across the West […]
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Across the Atlantic Ocean — 3,586 miles away from West Virginia — you will find Wales, which is part of the United Kingdom. The western side of Wales is lined by two channels from the Celtic Sea. And inland is quite mountainous. Within those mountain towns, you will find similar […]
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Families all across the world pass on traditions and it is no exception in Appalachia. Traditions like making apple butter in the fall, or celebrating Christmas morning at mamaws, or picking ramps at that secret spot in the spring, or even just going to church on Sunday. But for one […]
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Most Americans typically wear clothes made in factories overseas. The same goes for fabrics in homes, such as potholders, rugs and blankets. But it has not always been this way. Hand weavers once made a majority of people’s fabrics and rugs using old wooden fashioned looms that one can often […]
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See a recipe for salt rising bread at the bottom of this page. Salt rising bread has a long history in Appalachia. Typically, people outside of the region have never heard of it. The bread often brings to mind a variety of distinctive scents and grandmothers tending to a time-intensive […]
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For 100 Days in Appalachia’s food and culture editor Mike Costello, inheriting his grandmother’s rosette iron has sparked a new tradition in his kitchen this holiday season. Rosettes are traditional Swiss pastries Costello says his ancestors in Helvetia, West Virginia, fried using the floral shaped iron. “I’ve heard a lot […]
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