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West Virginia Public Broadcasting More than 30 members of the combined American-Austrian family gathered for a reunion in Pickens, W.Va., in August 2019. If you live in Appalachia, or for that matter, if you’ve ever lived in Appalachia, you are a part of our family. It defines us. This week on Inside Appalachia we’ll hear about family found in unexpected places — like a West Virginia family who got a letter from a sister in Austria they didn’t even know they had. And a young man in North Carolina was inspired to learn old-time music when he saw a jaw-dropping performance by a fiddle ...

Protesters at a Black Lives Matter March in Marion, Virginia in July 2020. What are communities in Appalachia doing to address racism? The death of George Floyd and others at the hands of police sparked hundreds of demonstrations over the summer, and a national reckoning on police reform and systemic racism. Those conversations are happening here in Appalachia, too. Many mountain people organized Black Lives Matter marches in small towns across the region. And they’re taking a hard look at laws and policies that treat people unfairly. In this episode of Inside Appalachia, we look at a com...