Inside Appalachia

This week #InsideAppalachia 🌄, we visit Ashford-Rumble Elementary in Boone County, West Virginia with Folkways Reporter Zack Harold, where students are still playing old school games, including marbles. Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/OoqoiEL

This week #InsideAppalachia 🌄, Host Mason Adams spoke with comics writer Andrew Aydin about Islands in the Sky, a forthcoming comics anthology about Hurricane Helene and its aftermath. Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/LbWXxsV

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, social distancing made shape note singing a lot harder, but a group figured out a way to continue to sing through the pandemic. Editor Kelley Libby filed this story in 2020. Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/xmpH5HV

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, Folkways Reporter Zack Harold brought this story in 2020 about as West Virginia tomato plant called “mortgage lifter.” 🍅 Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/IFyEJyx

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, former WVPB videographer Chuck Kleine and Pennsylvania resident Joe Buckland recorded their experiences with having children during the pandemic. Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/xITrp8X

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, we have an encore episode about the start of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. 😷 Click/tap the link below and listen to this episode now. 🎧 buff.ly/G36iHMQ

This week, #InsideAppalachia🌄, Ella Hanshaw was a singer-songwriter who grew up and lived in West Virginia. Host Mason Adams spoke with Kelly Kerney, Hanshaw's granddaughter, about the release of "Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book." Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/mC9F872

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, Producer Bill Lynch paid a visit to Hillbilly Hotdogs in Lesage, West Virginia. Hillbilly Hotdogs is a local institution and a tourist attraction for visitors from all over the world. 🌭 buff.ly/jucsaoL

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, WVPB Reporter Wendy Welch visited a McDowell County restaurant that stepped up to help their community after flooding in February. Five months later, some businesses are still dealing with damage from the floods. buff.ly/eFVcU2c

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, we revisit a story by Folkways Reporter Connie Bailey Kitts about horse-powered farming. 🐎 🚜 Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/vWXJ52p

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, the music of West Virginia songwriter Ella Hanshaw. Also, a pair of potters in western North Carolina forego commercial clay to work with clay that’s "wild." Listen now. 🎧 buff.ly/YtZtg5H

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, Associate Producer Abby Neff spoke with Michael Snyder, a photographer and filmmaker, about his new book "Alleghania: A Central Appalachian Folklore Anthology." Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/xXzCeNT

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, we remember Travis Stimeling, a WVU professor and musician who died suddenly in November 2023. Folkways Reporter Zack Harold spoke to some of Stimeling's students, friends and colleagues in 2024. Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/vZOSK5d

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, an international photographer turns his lens toward home. 📸 Also, after Hurricane Helene, whitewater rafting guides 🛶 are adapting to diminished business and changed rivers. Listen now. 👇 buff.ly/SDPTIOP

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, we revisit the World's Largest Teapot with WVPB's Zander Aloi, who took a trip to Chester, West Virginia in 2023 to learn the history of the roadside attraction. 🫖 Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/GOdZRMo

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, we revisit a story from 2024, when Folkways Reporter Rebecca Williams spoke with DeDe Styles in Swannanoa, North Carolina about her creation of natural dyes with weeds. 🌿 Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/znqWvfN

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, we revisit this story from 2020 by Host Mason Adams who explored the Dinosaur Kingdom II with artist Mark Cline’s in Natural Bridge, Virginia. 🦕. Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/HXpk87Y

This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, dinos fight Civil War soldiers at a theme park throwback — Dinosaur Kingdom II in Natural Bridge, Virginia. Also, one person’s roadside weed is another’s “golden” treasure. So says a North Carolina fiber artist. buff.ly/SDPTIOP

This week #InsideAppalachia 🌄, Host Mason Adams spent time with crisis teams in Huntington and Princeton, West Virginia who work with people in mental health crises. Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/k5ALuXv

This week #InsideAppalachia 🌄, states have moved to offer resources to help with gambling addiction. News Director Eric Douglas spoke with Sheila Moran of First Choice Services, which runs the 1-800-GAMBLER helpline. Tap 👇 to listen 🎧. buff.ly/HXHVCN7