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Every weekend, Ainsley Bryce, the executive director of Holler Harm Reduction, sets up a syringe exchange in the back parking lot of a Dollar General in western North Carolina, where people seek help across state lines. Photo: Stacy Kranitz/For 100 Days in Appalachia

‘Harm Reduction Saves Lives’: Meet the Appalachians Doing the Work

Recovery

byTaylor Sisk, Photography by Stacy Kranitz

March 30, 2023

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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

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‘The Way We Live Now’: Our Bubble

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byOlivia Martin

July 10, 2020

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‘The Way We Live Now’: Why Leave Anymore?

The essays included in The Way We Live Now are the end product of an advanced creative writing…

byMakayla Kulick

July 3, 2020

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‘The Way We Live Now’: Managing A Lost Final Semester

The essays included in The Way We Live Now are the end product of an advanced creative writing…

byFranklin Bogle

June 26, 2020