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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...

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...

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...

Published March 12, 2021 at 12:38 PM EST Listen • 15:14 On this West Virginia Morning, a small tavern has been serving the community simple, inexpensive grill food for four generations, and the locals keep coming back year after year. Also, we have an update from the statehouse and this week’s Mountain Stage Song of the Week. A bill to help students pay for community and technical college and another that would allow private and homeschooled students to participate in extracurricular activities at public schools are on the move in the West Virginia Senate. Li...

Needle Exchange A bill was recently introduced in the West Virginia State Legislature that would outlaw some of the state's most effective needle exchange programs. SB 334 was introduced by Senators Eric Tarr and Amy Grady; both are Republicans for District 4, which includes Mason, Jackson, Roane and Putnam counties. SB 334 would create a stricter license application process for harm reduction programs. Talking about HIV and other needle-borne illnesses can be scary — maybe that’s why so many of us don’t talk about it. But what if the stigmas are causing these health crises to worsen? H...