In her new novel, “Blood Creek”, author Kimberly Collins writes about the strikes that gripped the southern West Virginia coalfields in the early 20th Century from the perspective of the women who lived through them. “Blood Creek” is the first in the Mingo Chronicles series. It starts with the strike at […]
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When Cicero Fain began working on his Ph.D., he took a deep look at the black community in Huntington, West Virginia. He wanted to understand where it began and what helped it to thrive. That research ultimately became his new book “Black Huntington: An Appalachian Story.” One major factor that […]
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Craft breweries are popping up all over the region. In West Virginia alone, there are 27 breweries and three quarters of them opened in the last five years. Sam Fonda, from Weathered Ground Brewery in Raleigh County, West Virginia, has almost 3,000 gallons of soon-to-be-beer fermenting and another 1,000 gallons aging in […]
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In movies, the people and places of Appalachia are often made into an “other.” That makes it easy to both romanticize and look down upon the region. One example is the common joke many Appalachians are all too familiar with, when someone who isn’t from here pretends to play the […]
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Nearly two years ago, my wife was laid off from a high-paying job in the oil and gas industry. Every day she sits on the couch, her computer in her lap, and sifts through job listings, searching. She applies for positions she is qualified for — and many that she […]
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