When you think of “Appalachian cooking,” what comes to mind? For a lot of folks, it’s savory comfort foods like biscuits with sausage gravy, crispy fried chicken and mashed potatoes loaded with butter. But, what about folks who want that comfort food, without involving animals? Jan Brandenburg is a pharmacist and poet in Eastern Kentucky. Over the last 30 years, she’s collected and perfected recipes that take a plant-based approach to the Appalachian table. Producer Bill Lynch spoke with Brandenburg about her new book The Modern Mountain Cookbook.

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Arts & Culture Mason Adams, Jan. 27, 2025

New Graphic Novel Illustrates The West Virginia Mine Wars

The West Virginia Mine Wars are an important but little known piece of American history. Coal miners in southern West Virginia had been trying to organize a union, while coal companies tried to stop them. Strikes and violent clashes ensued, culminating in the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921. A version of the story is told in the new graphic novel “Black Coal and Red Bandanas: An Illustrated History of the West Virginia Mine Wars.” Mason Adams spoke with its author, Raymond Tyler.

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Arts & Culture WVPB Staff, Oct. 18, 2024

The Mine Wars Come Alive For Young Readers And Our Song Of The Week, This West Virginia Morning

On this West Virginia Morning, a young adult author hopes to bring the story of the struggle to unionize coal mines to today’s young readers, and our Song of the Week.

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Radio Feb. 25, 2020

February 25, 1903: Lawman Cunningham Leads an Armed Posse into Stanaford

On February 25, 1903, an early labor-related shootout took place at Stanaford, near Beckley. At dawn, Deputy U.S. Marshal Dan Cunningham led an armed…

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WVPB News Associated Press, Sep. 22, 2019

WVU Center Lands Another Grant To Digitize Newspaper Archive

A project to digitize historical newspaper archives in West Virginia has landed another grant.The West Virginia University Libraries' West Virginia &…

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Radio Aug. 28, 2019

August 28 1921: Armed Miners March on Blair Mountain

In August 1921, armed coal miners from the Kanawha Valley and the southern counties of Boone, Fayette, Mingo, McDowell, and Logan gathered at Marmet in…

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Radio May. 28, 2019

May 28, 1962: Labor Spy C.E. Lively Dies in Huntington

Labor spy C. E. Lively died in Huntington on May 28, 1962, at age 75. Lively first came to Matewan in Mingo County in 1920 and joined the union during the…

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