Resources

 Recommended Resources:

Documents: 

This Land is Home to Me and At Home in the Web of Life https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e0ebce33d6a6002f3105cc7/t/5e3321856cac3d0b6f059a5a/1580409225664/AppalachianBishopsPastorals.pdf

Articles:

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:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/eastern-kentucky-is-underwater-but-you-probably-didnt-notice/606973/

Appa-latch-uh or Appa-lay-shuh:What is the Correct Way to Prounounce Appalachia?https://gotmountainlife.com/appa-latch-uh-or-appa-lay-shuh-what-is-the-correct-way-to-pronounce-appalachia/#:~:text=For%20many%20years%2C%20people%20have,way%20to%20say%20the%20word.

Books:

•  What You're Getting Wrong About Appalachia -Elizabeth Catte

•  Uneven Ground - Appalachia since 1945- Ronald Eller

• Ramp Hollow-Steven Stoll 

• Lots of great writings here by Don West, founder of Appalachian South Folklife Center: https://digitalcommons.lmunet.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=csbc

Films and series:   

•   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. 2 hrs

  • Matewan-movie 2 hrs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqKtWdlvesA&t=156s (We watched this as a group but you can watch on your own.)

  • 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  7 day free trial on Amazon  https://www.amazon.com/American-Experience-Mine-Michael-Murphy/dp/B01B27VFGM 

  • Blood on the Mountain https://vimeo.com/157243346 -1 hr 1/2

  • 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, Podcasts and Sound recordings: 

• Inside Appalachia -PBS Podcast by Jessica Lilly .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/

• 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.productionhub.com/video/21530/appalachian-settlers-their-dwellings 8 1/2 minutes

•  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. Smithsonian Channel  3 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5RcbPZXUZo

•  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. https://vimeo.com/234894121  20 minutes

Photos: Roger May's well-respected photo project of Appalachia  https://lookingatappalachia.org/

    Other Resources: 

The Zinn Project: The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people's history in classroom across the country. Since 2008, the Zinn Education Project has introduced students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. https://www.zinnedproject.org/search?_keywords=APPALACHIA

https://socialjusticeresourcecenter.org/ The mission of the Social Justice Resource Center is to link faith to action by providing information and resources on the social issues of our time. The site includes facts and figures, resources such as publications, films and websites, calendars of events, biographies, prayers and quotes, as well as specific action ideas. 

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