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In 2009, Maddie McGarvey first visited 3-year-old Paige Casto and her family in a southeast Ohio town to take photos for a college photography class. Then, for the next 15 years, she returned to ...

Annihilating The Hillbilly Redux: Appalachia’s Struggle Against America’s Institutions is a profoundly important book for the field of Appalachian studies that shares the author’s personal experiences ...

She ended up having four more children in abject poverty, getting evicted from one slum house after another, in and out of a homeless shelter. That’s common. Everyone around here knows somebody like ...

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Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you ...

“This book is a game changer[…]Branscome introduces a new perspective that challenges accepted wisdom. He changes the conversation within public discourse about Appalachia.” The famous Lifting the ...

Maddie McGarvey has photographed Appalachian Ohio for her entire career. (Photo courtesy of Maddie McGarvey) Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the ...