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Umbrella threads at Appalachia Group 2 theHandpuppet Oct 2014 Jan 11 2 5573
Greetings, all! 17 theHandpuppet Mar 2014 Nov 2014 9 11448
Appalachia's Hometown Heroes 7 theHandpuppet Oct 2014 Nov 2014 1 24059
Charities/Volunteer Organizations serving the Appalachians 10 theHandpuppet Oct 2014 Nov 2014 3 56164
Redneck 16 KathyJ Jan 2 Jan 3 9 1045
The History and Pictures of CUDJO'S CAVERNS at Cumberland Gap before the National Park. 3 William769 Jan 2025 Jan 2 1 2413
greetings . new to this thread. 2 AllaN01Bear Jan 2024 Jan 2 1 2827
Inside Appalachia's Most Remote Border 2 dalton99a Nov 23 Nov 23 7 1069
Trump absolutely dominates Appalachia (xpost from GD_ 4 KamaAina May 2016 Nov 23 0 5157
Read Your Way Through Appalachia, Barbara Kingsolver: NYT 7 appalachiablue Aug 2023 Nov 2025 8 4634
Betty Kellenberger, 80, of Michigan - Oldest Woman to Hike the Entire Appalachian Trail 🍁 3 appalachiablue Oct 2025 Oct 2025 16 1005
The Appalachian Diaspora, How It Can Help Reinvigorate the Region: Expatalachians 6 appalachiablue Apr 2022 Jul 2025 3 5362
Trump requests 93% cut to Appalachian Regional Commission. Ohio would take a huge hit. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 15075
After Storm Helene, Struggles Grow in Black Appalachia Town, Junaluska, North Carolina 0 appalachiablue Dec 2024 Dec 2024 5 24910
Southern and Central Appalachia post-Helene relief 0 Tanuki Oct 2024 Oct 2024 6 2022
🫂 Post-Helene Resources, Agencies, Donations, Food, Contact Help, Asheville, NC Community ABC13 1 appalachiablue Sep 2024 Sep 2024 7 2225
Latest Power Outages from Storm Helene in West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky 0 appalachiablue Sep 2024 Sep 2024 5 2085
Historic Flooding Taking Place on the New River, Parts of Southern West Virginia Into Virginia 0 appalachiablue Sep 2024 Sep 2024 6 2175
As young boy growing up in Appalachia Pennsylvania 1 Duncanpup Sep 2024 Sep 2024 16 2060
He's Lived 50 Years Off The Grid In Appalachia: Herbal Specialist Joe Hollis, RIP 4 appalachiablue Jun 2024 Jun 2024 17 4327
Reggae: A Story of Race, Religion and Redemption - The Appalachian, Boone 2 appalachiablue Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 3149
WV Could Get Stuck Cleaning Up Coal Industry's Messes, Crisis Emerging KY, OH, PA, VA: ProPublica-(App) 0 appalachiablue Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 3482
A Mobile Clinic Parked At A Dollar General? It Says A Lot About Rural Health Care: NPR 🚐 (Appal) 1 appalachiablue Oct 2023 Oct 2023 6 4712
He's Lived 50 Years Off The Grid in Appalachia 🐿 8 appalachiablue Aug 2023 Aug 2023 46 7147
'King Coal' Documentary Review, Heavy Is The Crown. A View From Appalachia: NYT Critic's Pick 8 appalachiablue Aug 2023 Aug 2023 8 6247
FL Bros Ran Lgst Opioid 'Pill Mills' in US Hist 1000s of Deaths - 'American Pain' CNN Film, Sunday 0 appalachiablue Feb 2023 Feb 2023 5 7287
Photos of Appalachia, Photographer Explores Appalachian Folk Tales Through Vividly Poetic Images 8 appalachiablue Jan 2023 Jan 2023 9 5968
Landau's Great American Songbook: Singer Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. of Logan, WV 0 appalachiablue Jan 2023 Jan 2023 4 5811
This was my favorite cake growing up in Appalachia 5 William769 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 17 6762
How Big Coal Companies Shed Responsibility for Cleaning Up Their Messes: NPR 3 appalachiablue Oct 2022 Oct 2022 7 11467

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This message was self-deleted by its author 0 appalachiablue Oct 2022 Oct 2022 3 2917
Black Appalachian Activist, Writer & Dissenter of Coney Barrett Confirmation Tells Her Story 2 appalachiablue May 2022 May 2022 6 15077
*Expatalachians* Appalachian Journalism 2 appalachiablue Apr 2022 Apr 2022 8 3041
ReImagine Appalachia: Coalition Plan To Build A Better Future For Appalachia, Economy & Environment 4 appalachiablue Feb 2022 Feb 2022 7 10671
Amid Coal's Decline, What Comes Next for Appalachia 2 TexasTowelie Jan 2022 Jan 2022 3 4442
Trans people have a long history in Appalachia - but politicians prefer to ignore it 1 TexasTowelie Dec 2021 Dec 2021 8 7593
Meet The People Getting Paid $10,000 For Moving To West Virginia 0 appalachiablue Oct 2021 Oct 2021 3 4854
Looking Back And Pointing Ahead At The Future of Coal Mining in Appalachia 0 TexasTowelie Oct 2021 Oct 2021 3 7942
Appalachian states face billions in mining cleanup 5 TexasTowelie Jul 2021 Jul 2021 3 4852
Matewan Massacre: Landmark Struggle For Miner & Worker Rights 101 Years Ago, May 19, 1920 5 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 2 9014
Report shows natural gas fracking didn't produce promised jobs to Pa. and Appalachia 2 TexasTowelie Feb 2021 Feb 2021 4 11283
Gov. Ralph Northam elected co-chair of Appalachian Regional Commission 1 TexasTowelie Feb 2021 Feb 2021 2 8598
Appalachian Hospital In Kentucky Vaccinates Workers 6 appalachiablue Dec 2020 Dec 2020 4 4839
COVID in Appalachia: Misinformation is killing people 4 TexasTowelie Nov 2020 Nov 2020 16 8744
Movie Trailer, 'Hillbilly Elegy' By Ron Howard, Based on J.D. Vance's Book; 'The New Deliverance' 1 appalachiablue Oct 2020 Oct 2020 3 9400
'In Appalachia, People Watch Covid-19, Race Issues From Afar' 2 appalachiablue Oct 2020 Oct 2020 3 4272
"How The Coronavirus Made Ending Homelessness Even More Critical"; WV, Appalachia 0 appalachiablue Jul 2020 Jul 2020 3 6880
High Court Green-Lights Pipeline Route Through Appalachian Trail 1 appalachiablue Jun 2020 Jun 2020 2 3920
"What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia," By Elizabeth Catte, Book Review 7 appalachiablue May 2020 Jun 2020 12 9696
The Liberal Redneck: Progress & How Democrats View Rural America 12 appalachiablue May 2020 May 2020 12 6011
Appalachia's Front Porch Network Is A Lifeline During The Pandemic 2 appalachiablue May 2020 May 2020 22 6343
'People Are Fleeing To Appalachia To Escape Covid-19; That Needs To Stop' 3 appalachiablue Apr 2020 Apr 2020 6 8666
"The Lies We're Told About Appalachia": Stereotypes, The Media, LBJ's War On Poverty 8 appalachiablue Dec 2019 Dec 2019 7 10252
Study Shows Surface Coal Miners Are Exposed To Toxic Dust That Causes Black Lung 1 TexasTowelie Dec 2019 Dec 2019 0 7741
Report: black lung funding cut will cost taxpayers billions 0 appalachiablue Dec 2019 Dec 2019 2 3823
New Film, DARK WATERS, Mark Ruffalo: Chemical Waste, Corporate Corruption 0 appalachiablue Nov 2019 Nov 2019 2 6102
What Happens When a School Closes Inside Appalachia 3 TexasTowelie Aug 2019 Aug 2019 6 5680
Paddleboats, Whitewater Rafting and Scuba Diving -- in the Mountains? Yep -- Inside Appalachia 2 TexasTowelie Jul 2019 Jul 2019 7 7494
Ex-Pharma Chief Charged with Flooding Appalachian Towns with Opioids 0 appalachiablue Jul 2019 Jul 2019 9 4331
Alzheimer's & Gingivitis: Brush Your Teeth, New Medicine Dvmt.,*Links to Diseases 2 appalachiablue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 3 7742

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Now On TCM: 'Harlan County, USA' Movie (1976) 0 appalachiablue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 9 4858
Rise of HIV cases another effect of opioid epidemic in Appalachia 1 TexasTowelie May 2019 May 2019 2 6706
''It's Just Really Hard'- Families and Caregivers Struggle to Find Resources Inside Appalachia 0 TexasTowelie May 2019 May 2019 8 7307
Update: Medicaid Work Requirements Hit Roadblocks 0 appalachiablue May 2019 May 2019 0 6142
Beneath the Surface -- Drinking Water Inside Appalachia 0 TexasTowelie May 2019 May 2019 6 5331
Young KY Climate Change Activists Swarm Mitch McConnell's Office, ABC News 0 appalachiablue Feb 2019 Feb 2019 5 6716
WVU's Virginia Thrasher wins the first gold for the US 1 awoke_in_2003 Aug 2016 Feb 2019 0 4757
An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands Of Coal Miners. Regulators Could Have Stopped It 2 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 4 7312
URGENT---Last Chance to Check Online & Make Sure Your Early Ballot Vote Has Been Counted! 0 PandoraAwakened Nov 2018 Nov 2018 0 6053
Activist Victories In Fight Against Appalachia Pipelines, Atlantic Coast, Mt. Valley Resistance 0 appalachiablue Aug 2018 Aug 2018 3 4494
Judge Sides with Anti-Pipeline Protesters in Appalachia, July 30, 2018 0 appalachiablue Jul 2018 Jul 2018 8 4428
Trump Wants To Weaken *Coal Miner Protections As Black Lung* Makes A Comeback 6 appalachiablue Jul 2018 Jul 2018 4 8578
The shocking danger of mountaintop removal --- and why is must be stopped. 0 Petrushka May 2018 May 2018 6 6013
Help MARIA GUNNOE, Awarded Appalachian Environmental Activist, MTR 0 appalachiablue Apr 2018 Apr 2018 2 4101
Deadly Black Lung Makes a Comeback Among Coal Miners 7 A Little Weird Nov 2014 Nov 2017 3 10199
New effort to help with poverty in Appalachia 0 TexasTowelie Sep 2017 Sep 2017 2 7228
Death comes sooner in Appalachia. It comes much sooner in Eastern Kentucky. 1 TexasTowelie Aug 2017 Aug 2017 16 8831
Appalshop seeks Communications Director 0 Tanuki May 2017 May 2017 0 8697
Government shutdown coming? If miners cant get enough help, maybe 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2017 Apr 2017 4 7191
Job-spurring grants in Appalachia are targeted in Trump's budget. Here's whats on the line 1 TexasTowelie Mar 2017 Mar 2017 2 7990
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