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Low Hills, White Pines

By Nicole & Jesse Wooten

The Appalachian Mountains were just hills. I was a painfully shy eight-year-old, my brother was a brave fifth grader, and we were fresh from the West, where kids read quickly, we got real snow, and mountains were screaming, sky-scraping shards, not … Continue reading →

Posted on September 20, 2015 | Posted in Issue VII | Tagged essay, music

Peace of Mind

By Sharif Youssef

My relationship with West Virginia has always been strained. I’ve lived most of my life in her hills, attending kindergarten and grades four through twelve in two adjacent counties in the Northern Panhandle. But even from a young age, I … Continue reading →

Posted on April 12, 2015 | Posted in Issue VI | Tagged music, video

Oklahoma Hills

By Hans Bilger

I wasn’t born in the Oklahoma hills. The Guthries’ lyrics rang truer in high school, when my dad sang them with our family string band. But even though both my parents grew up in Stillwater, the cowboy’s life never much … Continue reading →

Posted on January 18, 2015 | Posted in Issue V | Tagged music, video

A Fiddler’s Postcard

By Hannah Sassoon

I love Tennessee’s old-time fiddle music. It’s just something people do…

Posted on January 18, 2015 | Posted in Issue V | Tagged audio, music

“Heartbreak Town”

By Henry Gottfried

Growing up in Nashville, Tennessee, as the kid of a New York Jew and a New Jersey WASP, I didn’t listen to a lot of country music. But in high school, when my horseback-riding, naturally-twangy friend Casey introduced me to … Continue reading →

Posted on August 24, 2014 | Posted in Issue IV | Tagged music, video

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