This piece was originally published in Scalawag, which amplifies the voices of activists, artists, and writers reckoning with the South. You can read the original article here. As historian Jessica Wilkerson carefully turned the pages of a notebook documenting a coal miners’ strike, fragments of dried leaves fluttered out. Sudie […]
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As the opioid epidemic escalates, Tennessee legislators are considering a new way to bring teens back from the brink of addiction: Publicly funded recovery high schools. Designed to help students recovering from addiction, these would be among the first in the South and the very first in Appalachia. The recovery […]
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An unknown percentage of the 45 million Americans who rely on private drinking water wells could face contamination risks from fracking, as the Trump administration attempts to roll back some of the nation’s few federal fracking rules. About half of hydraulically fractured oil and gas wells in the United States […]
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Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area attracts visitors to explore its huge rock shelters, hop a train into the river gorge, or ride horseback on wildflower trails. But the same ancient inland sea that formed the park’s sandstone arches also created the underground treasures of the Cumberland Plateau: […]
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