At the peak of the opioid crisis, drug companies sent 12 million hydrocodone pills to Kermit, West Virginia, a town of about 350 people. Cars would line up at the one pharmacy with people waiting to pick up pain pills. The so-called pain clinics of a decade ago are gone. […]
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On Saturday, two gun-toting political groups planned to square off in downtown Louisville. NFAC, which stands for the Not F**king Around Coalition, had announced their plan to hold a march through the city earlier this month. Multiple 111%er militias took to social media to call on their members and like-minded […]
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You’ve heard of drive-in movies and drive-in restaurants…But how about drive-in professional wrestling? The All Star Wrestling company out of Madison (Boone County), West Virginia, held its first drive-in event Saturday night to more easily adhere to social distancing guidelines for the coronavirus pandemic. More than 50 cars surrounded a padded […]
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The plan, according to a Facebook post, was to meet in the East Preston School parking lot at noon. The school district superintendent had given the organizers permission to park there, as long as the protest itself stayed on the sidewalk. At 11:59 a.m., the parking lot was empty. Across […]
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Kacie Boone, a rising senior at East Rockingham High School in Elkton, Virginia, never considered herself to be an activist. “It’s kind of new,” Boone said. “I’m not like a — I hate the term — ‘social justice’ type [of] person.” But in June, that changed for the 17-year-old when […]
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Shape-note singing has deep roots in Appalachia and the American south. Popular first in 18th and 19th-century New England, shape-note singing is a tradition that relies on group participation. But what happens when groups can’t get together and sing? In a special report exploring folkways traditions, as part of the […]
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