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Family Recipes, Water Trouble And ‘Peerless City,’ Inside Appalachia

This week on Inside Appalachia, a Virginia Tech researcher challenges deeply held ideas about the purity of natural springs. Also, we meet the folks behind Angelo’s Old World Italian Sausage. They still use a family recipe that’s been handed down from generation to generation for over a century. Customers love it.

This week, a Virginia Tech researcher challenges deeply held ideas about the purity of natural springs.

Also, we meet the folks behind Angelo’s Old World Italian Sausage. They still use a family recipe that’s been handed down from generation to generation for over a century. Customers love it.

You’ll hear these stories and more this week, Inside Appalachia.

In This Episode:

The Story Of Angelo’s Old World Italian Sausage

Angelo’s Old World Sausage is available in stores in West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky.

Credit: Zack Harold/West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Angelo’s Old World Italian Sausage is from a family recipe that goes back over a century to the Calabria region in southern Italy. It’s become a grocery store favorite in West Virginia. 

Folkways Reporter Zack Harold spoke with the makers of Angelo’s Old World Italian Sausage and heard a story about sausage-making spanning generations.

Water Woes And The Trouble With Spring Water

It’s an old story in Appalachia: failing water systems leaving people afraid to drink from their taps. In McDowell County, West Virginia, people have relied on bottled water and mountain springs for decades, but maybe those alternate sources aren’t so pure.

Researchers at Virginia Tech have been looking into water inequity in the region. Mason Adams spoke with professor Leigh-Anne Krometis about what she’s found.

A Picture Of Peerless City 

“Peerless City” is a documentary about Portsmouth, Ohio, a city that’s been alternatively described as the place “where southern hospitality begins” and “ground zero for the opioid epidemic.”

Filmmakers Amanda Page and David Bernabo wanted to go beyond slogans, though. Bill Lynch recently spoke with them about the film, and about Portsmouth’s complexity.

Inflation Hits Eastern Kentucky Hard

Recent reports show inflation is down from what it’s been over the last two years, but people in places like Letcher County, Kentucky are still feeling the pinch.

WEKU’s John McGary has the story.

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Boating Safety Rules And Tips This Holiday Weekend

West Virginia’s waterways will be full of recreational boaters this holiday weekend. DNR police officers say to be safe — and have fun — in that order. Every year about this time, the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources runs its Operation Dry Water campaign.

West Virginia’s waterways will be full of recreational boaters this holiday weekend. DNR police officers say to be safe — and have fun — in that order.

Every year about this time, the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources runs its Operation Dry Water campaign.

“It’s important to get that message out every year that says boating is a fun recreational activity, but you have to be responsible about it. If not, people that are close to you have the potential to be injured,” said Lt. Col. David Trader, the DNR’s deputy chief of law enforcement.

Trader said it’s the law that boat operators must remain clean and sober. But he also said no one on board, for safety’s sake, should be visibly impaired, intoxicated or using drugs.

“They can still stumble around or fall out of a boat or get injured, “Trader said. “The overall picture of boating responsibly dictates that we control behaviors out in the water so that people don’t get hurt.”

The law says all passengers must have a U.S. Coast Guard approved personal flotation device on board. Try those life preservers on before you take off, Trader said, especially on the kids.

“First thing you should do is put the lifejacket on,” Trader said. “Make sure it fits them, make sure that it’s rated and in good condition and then keep it on.”

All boats must also have an audible warning device like a horn or whistle, and meet lighting requirements for night boating.

DNR police officers across this state will be out on all West Virginia lakes and navigable rivers this weekend.

The Law Works – Safety of Our Water Supply

One of the things we typically take for granted is that our water is safe. Safe to drink. Safe to give our children. But three hundred thousand West Virginians are no longer sure–and we all have questions. Dan Ringer talks about safe water in West Virginia on a special hour long The Law Works. Guests include Alan M. Ducatman, M.D., West Virginia University; Paul F. Ziemkiewicz, Ph.D., Director of the West Virginia Water Research Institute; and Professor Patrick C. McGinley, West Virginia University College of Law.

The Law Works airs on WV PBS Thursdays at 8:30 p.m.  and on WV PBS.2  Fridays at 11 a.m.

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