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On this West Virginia Morning, some farmers in neighboring Kentucky are worried about the impact tariffs spearheaded by President Donald Trump could have on their earnings. As Lily Burris with member station WKMS reports, that is because trade wars cost the state’s farmers nearly $3 billion in revenue during Trump’s first term.
Plus, Torli Bush is originally from Webster Springs, but his writing has reached well beyond Webster County. The rising voice in the Black Appalachian poetry scene released a new book this winter, “Requiem for a Redbird,” and gave Bill Lynch with Inside Appalachia the details.
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This week on Inside Appalachia, the setting for a new novel is a communal society founded by freed people in North Carolina. It was a real place called The Kingdom of the Happy Land. Also, when a West Virginia pastor got assigned to a new church, some folks tried to warn him. And, the online world of Appalachian memes — and what they tell us about folks who live here.
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