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Following Up With A Ukrainian Musician And Smoky Mountain Firefly Magic, Inside Appalachia
This week on Inside Appalachia, a Ukrainian musician reflects on what music means during wartime. And there’s a growing number of a certain kind of blood-sucking arachnid — and diseases that come with it. We also sit in on one of the natural wonders of the Great Smoky Mountains.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsEncore: Millipedes And Taylor Swift, Inside Appalachia
This week, we visit a farm in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania that can grow on one acre what other farms grow on 100 acres. We also hear about a podcast that remembers the "Back to the Land" movement of the 1970s and ‘80s – and a mysterious disappearance. And, we meet a team of scientists that found dozens of new millipedes across Appalachia. They named one species after a pop star.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe African Art Of Face Jugs, Inside Appalachia
This week on Inside Appalachia, a North Carolina potter is reviving an art form brought to America by enslaved Africans. We return to the town of Hindman, Kentucky, which endured catastrophic flooding last July, and get an update on the town’s recovery. We also talk with West Virginia poet Doug Van Gundy about disasters, and their relationship to art.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsStudying Insect Wings On This West Virginia Morning
On this West Virginia Morning, in the spring of 2016, a massive brood of cicadas emerged in northern West Virginia after 17 years underground. The event prompted one West Virginia University professor to study the composition of their wings. Assistant News Director Caroline MacGregor has the story.
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I am watching the BBC's Life in the Undergrowth for the first time and it is astonishing. This 2006 release came to my attention when I asked a friend,…
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