Memoir

Arts & Culture Mason Adams, About 7 hours ago

New Novel Explores The Plight Of Appalachia’s Talented Young People

Virginia writer Emilee Hackney has a complicated relationship with her home. She loves the place where she’s from, in Tazewell County — her friends, family, the swimming holes and mountains and wild places — but she also felt stifled. Her new memoir "All That’s Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir" explores this tension and her experience when she did leave. Inside Appalachia Host Mason Adams spoke with Hackney about the book.

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Government Chris Schulz, Aug. 01, 2026

Remote Work Programs, Child Online Safety and An Appalachian Memoir, This West Virginia Week

On this West Virginia Week, we learn about steps parents can take to keep their children safe from harm, we look at a program to attract remote workers to the state, and a new Appalachian memoir.

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Arts & Culture Mason Adams, Nov. 11, 2024

How Ferns Helped An Appalachian Author Navigate Family And Her Identity

A book by a Chinese-Appalachian author explores the concept of identity and how we are shaped by the people and places around us. Little S...

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Arts & Culture Bill Lynch +, Nov. 11, 2024

EJ Henderson After The Flood And "Little Seed," Inside Appalachia

After Helene, an Asheville guitar maker grapples with how to help her neighborhood when there’s so much need. A church in West Virginia is helping turn unwanted guns into garden tools. ...

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Arts & Culture Bill Lynch +, Jun. 24, 2024

The Healing Power Of Old-Time Music And A History Of Meth, Inside Appalachia

This week on Inside Appalachia, old-time music jams aren’t just fun, they’re good for your mental health. Also, the opioid epidemic has changed how we talk about addiction in Appalachia. But it’s not America’s only drug crisis. And, every year, hundreds of people parachute off the 876-foot-tall New River Gorge Bridge for Bridge Day, but not just anyone can do it.

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Arts & Culture Eric Douglas, Apr. 12, 2022

Memoir Celebrates 'Gilligan's' W.Va. Life, Family

Dreama Denver grew up in Bluefield, West Virginia before she moved to Florida in the early 1970s and went to work for Disney as one of the first cast members. That’s also where she met her husband, Bob Denver, an actor better known as “Gilligan.” When their son was diagnosed with autism, they eventually moved to West Virginia to provide him with full time care.

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