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A podcaster set out to find the truth about a woman’s death. True crime fanatics came for her when she decided it wasn’t murder

An Appalachian woman decided to start a podcast about whether a local road death was an accident or murder. After 23 episodes and growing momentum, she publicly changed her mind about the case — creating a true crime furor. Sheila Flynn speaks to the documentarian who was by Emily Nestor’s…

The Independent UK

Today's Interview: Chautauqua speaker tells Appalachian history from perspective of a woman historia

Jessie Wilkerson is a history chair at the University of West Virginia. She said her interest in women’s history dates back to childhood.

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Doc Watson at 100: The virtuoso guitarist brought Appalachian music to a worldwide audience and influenced generations of musicians

Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson was born on March 3, 1923, in Stony Fork, North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but his music is as influential now – more than a decade after his 2012 death – as at any time during his long career. During that time he was…

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Barbara Kingsolver returns to Appalachia to tackle opioid crisis, in Dickens-inspired novel Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver, author of The Poisonwood Bible, returned to her home turf of Appalachia to tackle one of its most urgent issues — with a little help from David Copperfield.

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The Photographer Undoing the Myth of Appalachia

For Stacy Kranitz, replacing negative stereotypes with a triumphant counternarrative would be too easy.

The Atlantic

A Tennessee twist on Dickens: behind the scenes of Dolly Parton’s Christmas Carol

The country superstar has written a clutch of new songs for this Appalachian take on the festive classic. But will she drop by to see it?

The Guardian - UK

Will pawpaws survive climate change?

Everyone wants a piece of the lovingly nicknamed "Appalachian banana.” Can the species survive a warming planet?

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After years of construction, Shell ethane cracker starts up

Years in the works, a massive petrochemical refinery in western Pennsylvania fed by the vast natural gas reservoir underneath Appalachia is fully operational

The Independent UK

Vance "leaves out" Appalachian women

Salon spoke to poets Pauletta Hansel and Sara Moore Wagner about their new books and the region's infamous son

Salon

JD Vance's firm invested in food company now facing lawsuits

A high-tech sustainable food company in Appalachia that was promoted by JD Vance and financed with help from his venture capital firm is facing five lawsuits alleging it misled investors

The Independent UK

Review: 'Demon Copperhead,' by Barbara Kingsolver

FICTION: Barbara Kingsolver's latest, and best, re-creates "David Copperfield" in America's Appalachians.

Tribune News Service

Sugar isn't the sole cavity creator

Oral health is a big issue in America — and especially in Appalachia

Salon

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver review – Appalachian saga in the spirit of Dickens

The novelist’s take on David Copperfield is a bold, heartbreakingly evocative tale rooted in America’s opioids crisis

The Guardian - UK

Loretta Lynn death: Stella Parton and Katie Couric lead tributes to country music icon after she dies age 90

Groundbreaking singer, whose songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia, is being remembered as an inspiration and ‘a truly immortal artist’

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Los Angeles Times

Loretta Lynn, coal miner’s daughter who transformed country music, dies at 90

Loretta Lynn, the firebrand singer and songwriter who transformed coal into diamonds by exploring her dirt-poor childhood in eastern Appalachia in her career-defining 1970 hit “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” died on Tuesday. She was 90.

Chicago Sun-Times

Country legend Loretta Lynn dies

The Kentucky coal miner’s daughter, whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died. She was 90.

The Independent UK

Loretta Lynn death: Country music icon dies aged 90

Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia, has died aged 90.

Irish Independent

Loretta Lynn, coal miner’s daughter and country queen, dies

Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died at the age of 90.

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The Conversation

No, it's not just sugary food that's responsible for poor oral health in America's children, especially in Appalachia

Brushing your teeth is essential for maintaining optimal oral health, but like most aspects of health, the full story is more complicated.

Tribune News Service

As Saturday proved, North Carolina’s best college football program resides in Boone

The question now is not whether Appalachian State has North Carolina’s best college football program — which it clearly does — but how exactly the Mountaineers defied the odds to build it in such an enduring way. And also: why no other school in the state has come close to…

The Independent UK

Crises forge Beshear's role as Kentucky's consoler in chief

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear's first term in office has been dominated by one deadly crisis after another: the global COVID-19 pandemic, tornadoes that killed scores of people in western Kentucky and floodwaters in Appalachia that left dozens more Kentuckians dead

Benzinga

EQT Corp (EQT) In Talks To Acquire THQ Appalachia For $4 Billion

EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT) is in negotiations to acquire THQ Appalachia I for $4 billion after including debt, per a Reuters report.

The Independent UK

Lawmakers pass flood-relief legislation for eastern Kentucky

Kentucky lawmakers have passed a measure injecting nearly $213 million into a flood-ravaged region of Appalachia

The Independent UK

Despite dangers, deep roots make Appalachia hard to leave

The deadly flooding that hit the Appalachian region of eastern Kentucky is making some stalwart residents who have hung on through disappearing jobs and the opioid crisis consider leaving their small towns

Irish Independent

More rain hits Appalachian communities where 30 people died in flooding

Another round of storms have hit flooded Appalachian mountain communities where more than 30 people were killed, and search and rescue teams have found more bodies.

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