Love Letters to Appalachia Archives — 100 Days in Appalachia

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Three Years after Lockdown, What COVID-19 Taught Us about Grief Traditions in Appalachia

COVID-19

byAmanda Held Opelt

March 16, 2023

A member of the Abundant Life Church serves barbeque chicken to an attendee of the dip dinner. About a dozen churches and faith communities partnered with several community organizations to prepare food for the event. Photo: Laura Harbert Allen/100 Days in Appalachia

Food and Faith: Church Dinners Have Served as Places to Build Community for Generations

Communities

byLaura Harbert Allen

March 2, 2023

‘When the Water Goes Down’: Eight Months Later, Eastern Kentucky Is Still Healing

A Changing Climate

bySkylar Baker-Jordan & P.B. Cooley

February 28, 2023

During his about a year-and-a-half stay at Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital in Huntington, Richard Rothermund gained 60 pounds and his health drastically declined. He died at age 40 on Dec. 17, 2021. Photos: Provided

For This W.Va. Family, Legislative Attention on ‘Warehousing’ People with Intellectual Disabilities at State Hospitals Is too Late

Access To Care

February 13, 2023

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Queering Appalachia — Finding Chosen Families Online in an Unforgiving Landscape

In 2017, Canadian visual artist Lucas LaRochelle created the experimental project “Queering the Map,” a community-generated interactive map…

byElizabeth Price

June 20, 2018