appalachians

If you want Appalachians to vote for you, when you post a video of your visit on YouTube you might want to spell the name of the town correctly.

The latest episode of Podcast Appalachia is now available! It’s a little known fact that Appalachians, both in the North and the South, played a major role in the early movement to abolish slavery. In this episode I look at this history and examine the role Appalachians played in expanding human liberty. You can listen [...]

The latest episode of Podcast Appalachia is now available!

Interesting snippet from MotherJones:

Aunt B. shares her theory on why Appalachians don’t care for Barack Obama:

Yes, it’s true, the Appalachians are full of quaint little hollers filled with deformed blind witches and inbred abnormalities due to all the incest.  And what’s even scarier is that they don’t have the cable tv or the internet or radios or even phonographs.  Why, they don’t even know there’s an outside world, except when some Hollywood beauty comes through to be summarily either

The members of Lighthouse Church where I attend are planning a mission trip to the Appalachians to take some needed items such as clothes , shoes , canned foods, and even toys for kids . Size of clothes do not matter, now would be a good time to clean that closet or garage out...