Recommended Articles
At Home in the Web of Life, and This Land is Home to Me
http://www.catholicconferencewv.org/docs/AtHomeintheWebofLife.pdf
Appalachia's Wounds (article in America Magazine(from 10/4/10) (The biblical injustice of mountaintop removal).
https://www.americamagazine.org/issue/749/article/appalachias-wounds
Appalachia Is More Diverse Than You Think.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/opinion/appalachia-trump-coal.html
Passive, poor and white: What people keep getting wrong about Appalachia-Elizabeth Catte
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/06/what-youre-getting-wrong-about-appalachia
Here is an interview with Elizabeth Catte: https://www.guernicamag.com/elizabeth-catte-appalachia-isnt-trump-country/
Eastern Kentucky Has Been Underwater but you Probably Didn't Notice by Silas House:
Appa-latch-uh or Appa-lay-shuh:What is the Correct Way to Prounounce Appalachia?
Recommended Books
What You're Getting Wrong About Appalachia -Elizabeth Catte
Uneven Ground - Appalachia since 1945- Ronald Eller
Ramp Hollow-Steven Stoll (highly recommended by ASFC)
Hillbilly Elegy-J.D.Vance(recommended by ASFC but some controversy over this one. For another viewpoint see above articles and book by Elizabeth Catte and see the review of the book Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy by Anthony Harkins https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/books/review-appalachian-reckoning-region-responds-hillbilly-elegy.html)
Lots of great writings here by Don West: https://digitalcommons.lmunet.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=csbc
Movies: These are recommended movies.
Hillbilly-rental 2019. Documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OcuyGz5ehM.Hillbilly seeks to expand understanding of Appalachia, tracing the evolution of the "hillbilly" stereotype in media and culture by connecting it to corporate exploitation of the region's natural resources.
Matewan -ASFC recommended and will be available at the site
Inside Appalachia -PBS Podcast by Jessica Lilly (colleague of director of ASFC and highly recommended by him)Sound only list can be found here. https://soundcloud.com/wvpublicnews/sets/inside- appalachia . This one won an award: https://soundcloud.com/wvpublicnews/what-happens-when-strangers-with-cameras-travel-inside-appalachia?in=wvpublicnews/sets/inside-appalachia Videos:https://www.pbs.org/video/a-year-of-recovery-jk5i7w/ . https://www.pbs.org/video/still-grinding-a-millers-tradition-xmrgaq/. https://video.wvpublic.org/video/a-broom-maker-legacy-iijura/
Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People (4 parts shown on PBS) Here is the link to Part 1 which then proceed to Part 2 at the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8cu27x68Eg
The Mine Wars on PBS https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/theminewars/#film_description
Blood on the Mountain https://vimeo.com/157243346 or
https://tubitv.com/movies/499016?utm_source=justwatch-feed&tracking=justwatch-feed
Gaslands I and Gaslands II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmB0iTfug_g and https://www.amazon.com/Gasland-2-Josh-Fox/dp/B00HFWS12U
Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxjCeDDOJek Appalachian Settlers and Their Dwellings. A short film about the Scotch-Irish and German settlers of Appalachia and the unique structures that they built.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5RcbPZXUZo The Land of Mountain Top Removal. Over five hundred mountains in West Virginia have been destroyed because of new mining techniques used by coal companies in the Appalachians.
https://vimeo.com/234894121 Leveling Appalachia The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining, a video report produced by Yale Environment 360 in collaboration with MediaStorm, focuses on the environmental and social impacts of this practice and examines the long-term effects on the region's forests and waterways
Photos: Roger May's well-respected photo project of Appalachia https://lookingatappalachia.org/