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The chef of an award-winning Asheville restaurant says he was shaped by memories of growing up in West Virginia.
The Seeing Hand Association brings together people who are visually impaired to learn the craft of chair caning.
And a West Virginia community grapples with its population of feral cats.
You’ll hear these stories and more this week, Inside Appalachia.
In This Episode:
Chef William Dissen’s memories are seasoned with the flavors of West Virginia’s mountains. He’s now taking some of those memories and turning them into award-winning cuisine at his James Beard Award-nominated restaurant, The Market Place, in Asheville.
Folkways Reporter Margaret McLeod Leef spoke with Dissen while he was in Charleston with his debut cookbook, Thoughtful Cooking.
A lot of folks in Appalachia grew up with caned chairs in the house, but you don’t see them as much as you used to. Cane breaks down over time and needs to be replaced. Few people know how to do that.
At a workshop in Wheeling, West Virginia, a community of skilled workers repair old chairs – and show that not everything that looks broken has to be thrown out.
Folkways Reporter Clara Haizlett brings us the story.
Clara also produced a short video about the people at Seeing Hand. That video, and a few others, will appear on West Virginia Public Broadcasting as part of an Inside Appalachia television special. The episode premiers at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving on WVPB and will be available to watch online starting Nov. 25.
West Virginia is home to more than 100,000 stray cats. Most aren’t spayed or neutered, which only increases the problem of overpopulation.
Pet advocates say subsidies for the procedure and pop-up clinics can help, but as WVPB’s Jack Walker reports, so can creative efforts to find cats a home.
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Bill Lynch is our producer. Zander Aloi is our associate producer. Our executive producer is Eric Douglas. Kelley Libby is our editor. Our audio mixer is Patrick Stephens. We had help this week from folkways editor Chris Julin.
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