Inside Appalachia 

Inside Appalachia

 

Saturday at 6 am on WV Public Radio  

Sunday at 6 pm on WV Public Radio 

 
This hour-long weekly radio news magazine is devoted to topics of interest in the southern Appalachian region - shared issues, shared culture and shared history - with a new perspective. Host: Cecelia Mason

 

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May 18, 2013
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Price of Justice
The Price of Justice

By Cecelia Mason

Award winning author Laurence Leamer is known for his best selling book King of the Night: The Life of Johnny Carson and his trilogy of books about the Kennedy family. But in his newest work, The Price of Justice: A True Story of Greed and Corruption, Leamer turns his attention to the long legal battle between independent mine owner Hugh Caperton and former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankeship. The book’s main characters are the two Pittsburgh lawyers who represented Caperton, Dave Fawcett and Bruce Stanley. Leamer says it was a previous experience in West Virginia that made writing this book attractive.


Lawyer in Leamer's book

By Jessica Y. Lilly

One of the two lawyers featured in the book, Bruce Stanley, is a native of the southern West Virginia coalfields. Stanley says it was his work as a journalist that uncovered a culture of injustice, and that motivated Stanley to become a lawyer. Jessica Lilly has more.  


Land development

By Ashton Marra

While many colleges and universities try to do their part to train potential future workers, economic developers across the region work to bring job opportunities. In mining regions of Appalachia, that might mean turning a flattened piece of abandoned mine land into a business park, golf course or airport. Ashton Marra spent time with economic developers in Mingo County and talking about their plans to attract new industry and jobs.  


carnival
Traveling 219

By The Project

Its spring- and plants are sprouting up in gardens and farm fields across Appalachia. Something else is sprouting in mall and shopping center parking lots- traveling carnivals. In the age before television and the internet, traveling carnivals brought a more exciting world to the modest everyday lives of regular folks across the country, including the rural towns of the Alleghenies.  These traveling carnivals roamed from town to town, offering a glimpse into an extraordinary production of shows, games, rides, and displays of the exotic and the bizarre. The Traveling 219 Project visited with Ina Clair Hicks of Friendsville, Maryland, as she shared her stories of the traveling carnivals that came through town in the 1930s.  


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Strawberries

By Fred Sauceman

Another spring time ritual is picking and eating strawberries. The small red fruit has been eaten in the Southeastern United States since around 500 B.C., archaeologists say.  For food writer Fred Sauceman, springtime strawberries are a welcome reward after a winter of anticipation.  When strawberries are ripe, word spreads fast in East Tennessee.   


History Bowl
WV History Bowl

By Suzanne Higgins

As West Virginia celebrates its Sesquicentennial this year, the winners of the State History Bowl find victory especially sweet. West Virginia Public Radio’s Suzanne Higgins visited the team of Raleigh County eighth-graders as they prepare to receive the coveted, traveling trophy.  


Plus: KY: Economic growth ... WV: Mingo County economic diversity ... and more
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