Podcast appearances and mentions of rachel garringer

(Image by Shutterstock) Lexington restaurateur Ouita Michel on how she is helping laid-off employees cope with the coronavirus crisis. | Those devices, our minds: latest installment in our mental health series | The literacy of early 20th century Appalachia | As Appalshop celebrates its 50th year, a visit with the folks at Possum Radio, the organization’s community station in Whitesburg.  Segment One: Ouita Michel - LISTEN  Segment Two: Dr. Melinda Moore, host of our series on mental health issues, interviews Father Steve Roberts of the Newman Center at UK on how our mobile devices affect who we are and how we behave | Samantha NeCamp, author of "Literacy in the Mountains: Community Newspapers and Writing in Appalachia" on the inaccurate portrayal of early 20th century Appalachians as generally illiterate. | Appalshop's 50th: "Possum Radio" with Rachel Garringer and Rich Kirby. - LISTEN  Interviews:  OUITA MICHEL  MELINDA MOORE  SAMANTHA NeCAMP  RACHEL GARRINGER & RICH KIRBY

(Image by Shutterstock) Lexington restaurateur Ouita Michel on how she is helping laid-off employees cope with the coronavirus crisis. | Those devices, our minds: latest installment in our mental health series | The literacy of early 20th century Appalachia | As Appalshop celebrates its 50th year, a visit with the folks at Possum Radio, the organization’s community station in Whitesburg.  Segment One: Ouita Michel - LISTEN  Segment Two: Dr. Melinda Moore, host of our series on mental health issues, interviews Father Steve Roberts of the Newman Center at UK on how our mobile devices affect who we are and how we behave | Samantha NeCamp, author of "Literacy in the Mountains: Community Newspapers and Writing in Appalachia" on the inaccurate portrayal of early 20th century Appalachians as generally illiterate. | Appalshop's 50th: "Possum Radio" with Rachel Garringer and Rich Kirby. - LISTEN  Interviews:  OUITA MICHEL  MELINDA MOORE  SAMANTHA NeCAMP  RACHEL GARRINGER & RICH KIRBY

In this episode we hear from Sister Bernie Kenny & Nurse Tauna Gulley about the book they co-wrote. It’s called “Better for Being With You: A Philosophy of Care” and it describes the life events of sister Bernie Kenny - who has worked as a nurse in Ireland, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and CA before she settled in swVA forty years ago. She helped establish a mobile health unit & has been a tireless advocate for the advancement of healthcare delivery in rural Appalachia. Sister Bernie & Tauna joined Rachel Garringer in the studio to talk more about the book, their work, and the state of rural healthcare.

Dorothy Allison is a self-described "feminist, working class storyteller, Southern expatriate, and sometime poet." The author of "Bastard Out of Carolina," she gave the keynote at the 2019 Appalachian Writers' Workshop at the Hindman Settlement School in Knott County, KY. Our own Rachel Garringer was there to capture her thoughts on writing, identity, class, memory and using language as a weapon. We’ll hear Kentucky writer Silas House introduce her. Listen in for an hour of humor, brilliance, and fire from an iconic Southern writer.

This week we're joined by special guest Rachel Garringer, who tells us all about her oral history project Country Queers (@countryqueers) which, as you can guess by the title, is pretty self-explanatory. We also get Kruged by Paul Krugman's latest bad article, "Getting Real About Rural America." Not gonna link to it because it sucks. Support Country Queers here: www.patreon.com/CountryQueers Support Trillbillies here: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

In this show we bring you stories of historically marginalized communities creating space in the mainstream. First, WMMT’s Rachel Garringer brings us along for the opening of Letcher County, KY’s first ever LGBTQ Safe Space. Then from the Ohio Valley Resource we’ll learn about the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, and, the UN’s report on Poverty in the U.S.

Sometimes rebuilding an economy, and lives, means adding one or two jobs at a time. A new bakery established by folks at the Hemphill Community Center in hard pressed coal country aims to provide Letcher County residents with healthy, locally sourced breads and baked goods while supporting Drug Court participants in their journeys to recovery. Rachel Garringer reports for WMMT.

Only a month late in posting this episode, this is the final prose recording from the 2014 Literary Tea series at the Greenbrier Valley Theatre in Lewisburg. It features Rachel Garringer, the 2nd place winner of our 2014 Emerging Writers Prose category. This recorded live reading comes from the October 13, 2014 Literary Tea session at the Greenbrier Valley Theatre in Lewisburg. We also mourn the loss of WV Writers member and podcast contributor Miles Dean, who passed on April 1. You can hear other podcasts featuring Miles at http://podcast.wvwriters.org/search/label/Miles%20Dean