This week on Inside Appalachia, we meet a West Virginia artist who designs stickers, t-shirts, patches, and pins. He relies on classic Appalachian phrases that his family has used for years. Additionally, people who live near Indian Creek in southern West Virginia say something is wrong with the water. Tests show contamination from a nearby mine.
This week we meet a West Virginia artist who designs stickers, t-shirts, patches and pins. He relies on classic Appalachian phrases that his family has used for years. Not everyone is suitable for radio.
Additionally, people who live near Indian Creek in southern West Virginia say something is wrong with the water. Tests show contamination from a nearby mine. Now people and animals are getting sick.
And many schools are experiencing teacher shortages. But what happens when the band director resigns?
You’ll hear these stories and more this week, Inside Appalachia.
In this episode:
- The hippie’s daughter makes stickers
- Jayne Anne Phillips talks about Night Watch
- Trouble at Indian Creek
- band leader
The hippie’s daughter makes stickers
Elizabeth Elswick has turned her love of Appalachian design and pop culture into a popular line of clothing and stickers.
Photo credit: Maddie Miller/West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Stickers have been a regular part of American pop culture for generations. In recent years, they had become more local.
Folkways reporter Maddy Miller visited one of West Virginia’s favorites, the Hippie’s Daughter, to talk about some of her best designs and most memorable quotes.
Jayne Anne Phillips talks about Night Watch
West Virginia author Jayne Anne Phillips is the winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Literature.
Photo courtesy
This year’s Pulitzer Prize for Literature went to West Virginia writer Jayne Anne Phillips, for her novel Night Watch.
Set years after the end of the American Civil War, the book takes readers to the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, a psychiatric hospital in the town of Weston, West Virginia.
Last fall, producer Bill Lynch spoke with Phillips about Night Watch and growing up near the asylum.
Trouble at Indian Creek
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection workers collect water samples from Indian Creek, where dirty water from a mine in Wyoming County flows.
Photo credit: Erin Beck
Residents of Wyoming County, West Virginia, say something is wrong with the water in a local stream. Residents say it makes them sick and kills the fish.
Reporter Erin Beck has been following the story. Mason Adams spoke with Beck about what she learned.
band leader
Just before the start of the fall semester, Midland Trail High School’s band director left to look for another job. With no one else to take charge, a high school senior stepped forward.
Kelsie Carte, a student at Fayette Institute of Technology, reported.
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Our theme song is by Matt Jackfert. Other music this week was provided by Sierra Ferrell, Amethyst Kiah, John Blissard, John Inghram, Sean Watkins and Little Sparrow.
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.
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