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A journey through Southern Appalachian heritage, one story at a time. We bring you songs, stories, and more from the Foxfire archive, full of over 50 years of oral history interviews conducted by high school students for the Foxfire Magazine and book series. Join us every month as we explore different aspects of mountain culture, as told by Appalachians.
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A coal-miner coding story opens into a grounded case for Appalachian ingenuity and community storytelling.
Justin Hall's path runs from Appalachian roots and early music into web design, development, and training work built around teaching coal miners to code.
Madison Whittle connects design, research, and humility through the idea of an experience that stays with people.
Madison Whittle brings a useful tension to this It Still Lives episode: design as both open creative expression and careful attention to how people actually respond.
A grounded conversation about journalism, teaching, burnout, and the skills that carry through a career change.
This Civic Imagination Incubator episode follows a practical conversation about the working life behind journalism and teaching, tracing a move from newsroom experience into faculty life.
A thoughtful Appalachian conversation on queer storytelling, place, and imagining civic change.
Kami Ahrens talks with Clinton W. Waters, an author in Bowling Green, Kentucky and co-founder and lead writer for Sundog Comics, about Southern Appalachian history, civic imagination, and the role creative work can play in community life.
A grounded look at civic imagination, Appalachian storytelling, and Kentucky's unsettled cultural borders.
The episode sets the Civic Imagination Project inside Foxfire's Southern Appalachian world, where storytelling becomes a way to think through despair, difference, and disagreement without pretending those tensions are easy to resolve.
Taiwan, remembered through conversation.
Evelyn Pollard Gregory, a media arts teacher in Louisville's JCPS schools, tells host Kami Ahrens how her grandmother's move from Macon, Georgia to Cleveland in the Great Migration shaped her interest in storytelling.
It Still Lives: Season 5, Episode 7 features Justin Hall, director of adult programs at Awesome Inc.
Season 5, Episode 6 of It Still Lives features Western Kentucky University senior Madison Whittle discussing Muser, an app she developed to study museum navigation and exhibit engagement.
Cammie Ahrens interviews Ryan Dearbone, an assistant professor of broadcasting at Western Kentucky University, about journalism, teaching, DEI work, and community life in Kentucky.
Kami Ahrens interviews Clinton W.
Kami Ahrens introduces Henry Jenkins, Sangeeta Shresthova, and Sam Ford to explain the Civic Imagination Project and its Appalachia incubator for six creative fellows.
Lena Dorsey recalls Bean Creek as one family where “if I had a piece of bread, you had one.”
It Still Lives Season 5, Episode 1, “Logging in the Mountains,” uses four 1976 oral-history excerpts to document Appalachian logging camps, timber work, and clear-cutting.
Cammie Ahrens introduces coal as a carbon deposit formed from plant remains and notes that coal supplied 25% of United States electricity in 2019, compared with 50% in 2003.
This episode explores the tradition of weaving in Southern Appalachia through an interview at the John C.
Host Cammie Ahrens interviews author Annette Clapsaddle about her novel set in 1940s Cherokee and her connection to the mountains.
This episode introduces the Foxfire podcast and previews upcoming summer events including Native Plant Week and a nature poetry workshop.
This episode explores the history and cultural significance of muscadine grapes and winemaking in Southern Appalachia, drawing from the Foxfire archive.
The host discusses adapting the Foxfire museum's hands-on educational programs for virtual learning during the pandemic, featuring clips from oral history interviews.
This episode explores the history of filmmaking in Rabun County, Georgia, and the region's evolving relationship with the film industry.
This bonus episode features oral history submissions from students about their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, part of a crowdsourced initiative to document Appalachian life.
A bonus episode of the Foxfire Podcast featuring five folktales from Southern Appalachia, introduced by hosts discussing the region's storytelling tradition.