Kim Kobersmith, Author at 100 Days in Appalachia

Employment, Education, Health Services Flow through Rural Counties’ Fiber

After a $50 million investment in a fiber-to-the-home network, two Eastern Kentucky counties are starting to reap benefits, according to local leaders. To find the fastest...

Recovery3 months ago

Job Program Helps People In Recovery Rebuild Houses – And Their Lives

The Housing Development Alliance in Hazard, Kentucky, found that volunteers referred by the Drug Court were some of their hardest workers. Now the nonprofit organization and...

Appalachia Inspired5 months ago

Guitars, Jobs and Music: Startup Business Hopes to Build on Mountain Traditions

A nonprofit school of luthiery in Eastern Kentucky is helping develop an instrument-building company that will build the local economy along with high-end guitars. All kinds...

100 Days in Appalachia

Kim Kobersmith

Stories By Kim Kobersmith

Employment, Education, Health Services Flow through Rural Counties’ Fiber

Job Program Helps People In Recovery Rebuild Houses – And Their Lives

Guitars, Jobs and Music: Startup Business Hopes to Build on Mountain Traditions

Commentary: What the White Debate Stage Says About Racial Equity

As Vaping Rates Escalate in Appalachia, Is Banning These Products the Answer?

Grocers In Rural Coal Country Struggle To Stay In Business

Could Appalachian Communities Survive On Their Own?

PA’s Dairy Industry Is Changing. These Family Farmers Are Innovating to Keep Up.

We Mapped out the Toxic Wastewater Discharges along the Ohio River. Here’s What We Learned.

W.Va. Hunters Return To Historical Roots

‘Stereotypes Get in the Way’ of Rural Nutrition Program

Appalachian Whiteness: A History that Never Existed

Coach Kellie: A Tiny West Virginia High School is Making Football History

Tell Us How You Feel: Sign Up for Survey on Digital Media

‘Tip Of the Spear’: As Customers Beg For Clean Water, Is a Crisis Looming In Appalachia?

Ken Burns’s ‘Country Music’ Does Little to Tell the Story of the Non-White, Non-Straight World of Country

The miner and the matriarch: Coal mining women of West Virginia

The Pendulum Effect: The science that took us from Obama to Trump

The Protesting Kentucky Coal Miners Who Stood Up and Stopped a Train