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Kentucky Artist Behind 'No Hate In My Holler' Debuts A Mural Featuring A Town’s Legendary Midwife

This conversation originally aired in the August 5, 2022 episode of Inside Appalachia. A mural in Pound, Virgini...

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Dede Styles in North Carolina uses common roadside plants to make natural dyes for fabrics. She teaches the craft, but it’s also part of a bigger mission for Styles. Folkways Reporter Rebecca Williams brings us this story.

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Kentucky Artist Behind 'No Hate In My Holler' Debuts A Mural Featuring A Town’s Legendary Midwife

A mural in Pound, Virginia, depicts Nancy Mullins Shores — a longtime midwife who delivered many of the town’s residents in the 20th century. The mural was designed and painted by Lacy Hale, an eastern Kentucky artist known for painting murals across central Appalachia, including one that garnered controversy for its imagery of an opossum amid pokeweed.

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