Inside Appalachia

What the History of Salt, Slaves & Coal Can Teach us about Appalachia's Future


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This week on Inside Appalachia, we travel to Cedar Grove, West Virginia, home of renowned novelist Mary Lee Settle. On this episode, we explore surprising, hidden histories through the work of Settle and the voices of women from Cedar Grove. Settle, who passed away in 2005, spent three decades on a series of books called the Beulah Quintet . The five books are each set in a different moment in West Virginia's history when a revolutionary change was at stake. Today's economic uncertainty here in
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