How to Make a More Sustainable Guitar By Brian Sewell Wayne Henderson, a renowned musician and luthier, spends most of his time in the workshop beside his home in rural Rugby, Va. Some of the finest acoustic guitars in the…
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Jackson County Green Energy Park
Garbage to Gas to Arts By Cinthia Miller It is hard to imagine that a landfill, the final place for mounds of household trash, could ever be a valuable resource, but Jackson County, N.C., is proving that even garbage has…
TAGS: Dillsboro Fire Arts Jackson County Green Energy Park Landfill Landfill Methane Outreach Program Methane sustainable alternatives
From These Hills
Contemporary Art in the Southern Appalachians By Paige Campbell Through Feb. 19, the William King Museum and Center for Cultural Art and Heritage in Abingdon, Va., will host the tenth exhibition of From These Hills: Contemporary Art in the Southern…
TAGS: Abington contemporary art From these Hills William King Museum and Center for Cultural Art and Heritage
Talking Tradition
By Molly Moore According to Gary Carden, the Scot-Irish people of Appalachia don’t communicate in dialogue. They communicate in stories. “When I was a child, [storytelling] was called lying,” Carden says. A renowned storyteller, Carden was raised by his Scot-Irish…
TAGS: Davy Arch Eastern Band of Cherokee Gary Carden James “Sparky” Rucker Liars’ Bench Scotch-Irish Storytelling
Writing the Ballad Novels: Sharyn McCrumb In Her Own Words
My father’s family settled the North Carolina mountains in the 1790s, and I grew up in a swirl of tales: mountain legends, ballads and scraps of Appalachian history. My first ancestor to settle in these mountains was Malcolm McCourry, chronicled…
Appalachian Documentaries
By Theresa L. Burris Residents of Appalachia have encountered prejudice through all types of media, some based on stereotypes of coal mining society. Fortunately, conscientious documentarians have surfaced over the years. They counter negative images of the region and examine…
TAGS: Appalshop Catherine Pancake David Novack Documentaries Mari-Lynn Evans Mimi Pickering Phylis Geller Robert Salyer Tom Hansell
A Simple Approach to Stewardship
An excerpt from a sermon by Pat Watkins Lots of people of faith have rejected the overwhelming attractions of consumerism and have begun to give simple gifts at Christmas. Consumerism, which seems to overshadow Christmas far more than any theological…
Time to Stop the Denial
Let’s talk about losing touch. According to a 2011 study by the Pew Research Center, fewer Americans believe in global warming than did five years ago. Politicians treat climate change as a non-issue and wage war on the U.S. Environmental…
Grassroots Filmmaking in Appalachia
By Tom Hansell Amazing documentaries come from the Appalachian region. From the Academy Award-winning Harlan County, U.S.A. to the recent premiere of The Last Mountain at the Sundance Film Festival, these mountains are full of compelling stories that have attracted…
BLM/OSM Merger Postponed | Newsbites
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has announced a postponement of a merger between the Bureau of Land Management and the Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation Enforcement to Feb. 15, 2012. In late October, Salazar announced the proposal and received immediate…
TAGS: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ammonium nitrate Appalachian politics Baard Energy Bureau of Land Management carbon capture Coal coal-to-liquids plants Energy and Natural Resources Committee EPA high-sulfur coal military training mine inspection National Mining Association Office of Surface Mining Ohio Politics reclaimed surface mine land surface mining Upper Big Branch mine disaster West Virginia University
