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PRISON DIDN'T STOP

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FINDING KINSHIP

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FARMHOUSE POTTERY

In 2012, James Zillian founded Farmhouse Pottery in Vermont’s beautiful Green Mountains. Committed to old-world methods and design, he and his team create bespoke goods that bring authenticity and joy to your home.

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In "King Coal" on PBS, two middle-school girls grapple with their identities inside a state that’s doing the same.
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Since 1944, Smokey Bear has taught us the importance of snuffing out campfires and never playing with matches. Now that we know some forest fires are good, experts are asking if Smokey is still “on message.”
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Since 1985, Apple Country Woodcrafters has donated 25,000 wooden toys in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Their workshop is straight out of the North Pole.
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From Pennsylvania to Tennessee, these ramps festivals celebrate the region’s favorite wild leek.
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Moonshiner Grace McAbee moved to Asheville in her 20s. Not long after, she met her husband and purchased a home in an industrial community called West End-Factory Hill, known today as the River Arts District. There, she sold and possibly produced booze.
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I know what you’re thinking. Vinegar? In pie? That’s disgusting. I used to think so, too. But when I finally mustered up the courage to take a bite, my five-year-old palate was pleasantly surprised.
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When Southern Chef Sean Brock sees kudzu, he sees an opportunity for new recipes and new food traditions.
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From dandelion roots to acorns, wild edibles that you can forage in Appalachia will give you serious outdoorsy cred on Thanksgiving day.
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This morning, I ate two and a half biscuits in three minutes flat. I’m not proud of this record, though my gluttony does attest to the power of this damn good biscuit recipe. It also says something about grief.

You see, earlier this week, doctors told my daddy he is dying. The medicine prescribed for his progressive lung condition, a disease brought on by 20 years of back-to-back shifts in a Western North Carolina paper plant, isn’t working. All we can do now is sit around hoping he’ll be eligible for a lung transplant from a suitable recently-deceased donor, which honestly is a weird thing to hope for.

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After losing her brother to addiction, poet Crystal Good found herself at the center of the Healing Appalachia music festival which compats opioid addiction in Appalachia.
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High-energy and often whip-fast, flatfoot dancing is an ancient tradition rooted in European, African, and Native American cultures, and it’s still going strong.
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These tunes prove the banjo ain’t just for country music anymore. Today, clever instrumentalists are plingin’ and plangin’ banjo strings in almost every imaginable genre.
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Many of these Appalachian musicians were punk before punk was even a thing.
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Tyler Childers and Silas House craft a heartbreaking love story about a gay Appalachian couple in the 1950s.
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At first, Patty Loveless had trouble getting into the song that might end up being remembered as her signature tune — "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive." She first released it back in 2001 on "Mountain Soul," a deeply personal album of bluegrass and old time tunes that sent her career in a new direction while snagging her a Grammy nomination
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Whether you call it Sunsphere or Wigsphere, the history of this Knoxville, Tennessee landmark is almost as strange as the structure itself.
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How do you commemorate the legendary Hatfield-McCoy feud? If you’re the state of W.Va., you do it with 1,000 miles of off-road recreational vehicle trails.
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Thanks to its toothy snarl, hairless tail, and bulging eyes, the opossum is never going to win a beauty contest, but if this critter were to vie for the position of Appalachia’s official mascot, I reckon it would win big. Here’s why.
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From Kentucky to Virginia to Tennessee, Appalachia is graced with countless cave systems. They range from the longest in the world to one boasting a stalactite organ. There's no better time to check out the region's remarkable caves than winter.
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If you have a yard, you can help save butterflies in five easy steps.
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Visit Dolly Parton's hometown — Sevierville, Tennessee — and see how new restaurants and shops honor her place in music history.
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They told author Jolene McIlwain to leave Appalachian Pennsylvania and never look back. She stayed and wrote an acclaimed anthology.
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This Mother's Day, find the perfect handmade gift for the artsy mama, the outdoorsy mama, the mystical mama, and more.
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To honor her West Virginia family's coal mining legacy, Megan Brown created a stunning handmade necklace crafted from actual coal dust.
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2023 was Woodshed's first full year as a magazine! From every corner of Appalachia and beyond, readers have flocked to our articles — especially these ten, our most-read stories of the year.
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Give Appalachian this holiday season! All year, we've been combing hills and hollers for fantastic gifts, and, dang it, our collection of handmade crafts and small batch foods has never been more exciting.
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We bought our family farm in 2021, but the wobbly economy has delayed restoration of its historic farmhouse. This Christmas, though, I just couldn’t stand seeing it dark and grim anymore. I mixed up an old fashioned, grabbed my favorite little Christmas tree, and headed out to the old place.
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