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Everytime someone makes a donation to Pennies of Promise, Im going to make Austin Hall (Appalachian Voices Field Organizer) TALLER… …Until he is back at his original height! Now…Austin is 6’8”, which rounds up to 7 feet even. This little squatty guy here has a long way to go!!! In a post below this, theres…

See those feet? Well…one of them is mine, and its going to be doin its darndest today to keep up with Ed Wiley! I am lookin forward to bein outdoors and seeing my buddy Austin, who by the way would appreciate if you would

We posted at the same time :)…go figure. Austin Hall, our own “Hillbilly on a Mission,” – LIVE and ON THE ROAD with Ed Wiley:… Forgive my absence from e-mail world. As of late the walk is taking us through areas where our questions for internet service are met with stares as though we have…

Today Ed Wiley hit 120 miles walking into Rock Cave (the town, not an actual rock cave. Ed wouldnt hide from anybody.)! Austin, Abby, Debbie, and Mr. Ed Wiley He spent last night camping on a beautiful Appalachian lake, and Debbie (seen in above photo) paid Ed and the support team a suprise visit. Ed…

There is a town meeting at the Blowing Rock town hall to talk about the Globe Project until 6PM today! If youre up in town, why not drop on by? Town officials will make a decision to oppose or endorse the project tomorrow. Here is their contact info: Mayor J.B. Lawrence 828-295-3162 [Update: Mr. Lawrence…

[Minnesota] Those who wanted to learn more about sustainable forestry and logging with horses had a great opportunity at Mark Adams’ farm near Hovland recently. Adams, one of the founding members of the Cook County Sustainable Forestry Cooperative, hosted the event…The co-op, which has aligned itself with the Forest Stewardship Council, was formed to offer…

Controversy is raging in the sleepy little town of Blowing Rock, NC as the National Forest Service is preparing to decimate and poison the beautiful beautiful Pisgah Forest area directly adjacent to the town. It is called The Globe Project…and town officials are meeting on it right now, with a final decision to be made…

Many of us remember when NY Attorney General Elliot Spitzer said this about upstate New York: “If you drive from Schenectady to Niagara Falls, you’ll see an economy that is devastated,” Spitzer says on the tape. “It looks like Appalachia. This is not the New York we dream of. Well, actually, it IS the New…

Dr. Scott Simonton expresses with scientific certainty that the children of Marsh Fork Elementary are exposed to dangerous amounts of coal dust. In short, dust has been and is generated at the Goals Coal facility as a result of material handling activities and this dust migrates to the school property and into the school, where…

Breaking news from the great Appalachian Evangelist (meaning…an evangelist for the Appalachian Mountains): just a summertime note that my new book on mountain cultures in the Sierra Madre (also known as Copper Canyon) of Mexico, IN THE SIERRA MADRE, is coming across the border this fall. Should you or anyone you know be curious about…