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Kentucky Pull Candy Harder Than It Looks You can find recipes for pull candy online. But be prepared to fail, if you've never made it before. It's hard to get it right. But it's amazingly soft and creamy to eat. Inside Appalachia Folkways Reporter Zack Harold caught up with a man who's a confectionary master. Zack Harold Joe Parcell of Winfield, West Virginia, won’t even attempt making candy unless the thermometer is below 50 degrees due to the difficult process. Crystal Wilkinson Named Kentucky’s ‘21-’22 Poet Laureate Crystal Wilkinson is the first Black woman in Kentucky to hold th...

Durham University has ranked sixth amongst UK universities for the number of testimonies relating to sexual violence, assault and harassment submitted to the site “Everyone’s Invited”. There are currently 41 testimonies relating to Durham, ranking it between York (with 40) and UCL (with 48). Exeter University ranked the highest amongst the universities named by the site, with 65 testimonies relating to the University. Durham Survivors, a group aimed at exposing the reality of sexual abuse in the Durham community, told Palatinate that they are “saddened but not surprised by the numb...

Denison Baldwin and Thomas Felts were part of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, ca.1912. This week on the show, we’ll hear an interview with historian Bob Hutton, who recently wrote an article about the Baldwin-Felts gunmen, who did the dirty work of Appalachia’s capitalists, even against their neighbors. We’ll also meet instrument-makers who are determined to find a way, even if it’s using the remnants of a refrigerator box, and women who are using poetry to undercut the wrong ideas people have about mountaineers. And author Robert Gipe has just completed his trilogy, which conclud...

Former Durham University Chancellor Bill Bryson was officially declared a National Treasure by the Association for the Promotion of Increasing Literacy this morning. He joins Sir David Attenborough, Mary Berry, and Jaffa Cakes, all of whom have also received the award in the past decade. The awarding-winning author told Palatinate: “This is the greatest honour that has ever been paid to me that didn’t involve money.” Following the announcement, the Bill Bryson Library, known affectionately as “the Billy B”, was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO. This is in recognition of its...

This is an encore episode we originally aired last November. It was the first episode Mason Adams and Caitlin Tan ever hosted together, and they began by asking each other a little about their back stories, and what they look forward to about hosting Inside Appalachia. No Ordinary Cookie During the pandemic, many people have turned to baking as a new hobby. In fact, flour sales nearly doubled in 2020 compared to 2019. Check out this recipe for cookies made with buckwheat flour. Rachel Greene, one of our Folkways reporters, has been talking with bakers who make pies and cookies with flour th...