Pay Dirt: The Gas Rush In Modern Day Appalachia Michael And Carrie Kline, Talking Across The Lines podcast

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Artificial intelligence is evolving at an unprecedented pace—what does that mean for the future of technology, venture capital, business, and even our understanding of ourselves? Award-winning journalist and writer Anil Ananthaswamy joins us for our latest episode to discuss his latest book Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI . Anil helps us explore the journey and many breakthroughs that have propelled machine learning from simple perceptrons to the sophisticated algorithms shaping today’s AI revolution, powering GPT and other models. The discussion aims to demystify some of the underlying math that powers modern machine learning to help everyone grasp this technology impacting our lives, even if your last math class was in high school. Anil walks us through the power of scaling laws, the shift from training to inference optimization, and the debate among AI’s pioneers about the road to AGI—should we be concerned, or are we still missing key pieces of the puzzle? The conversation also delves into AI’s philosophical implications—could understanding how machines learn help us better understand ourselves? And what challenges remain before AI systems can truly operate with agency? If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform. Sign up for our newsletter at techsurgepodcast.com for exclusive insights and updates on upcoming TechSurge Live Summits. Links: Read Why Machines Learn, Anil’s latest book on the math behind AI https://www.amazon.com/Why-Machines-Learn-Elegant-Behind/dp/0593185749 Learn more about Anil Ananthaswamy’s work and writing https://anilananthaswamy.com/ Watch Anil Ananthaswamy’s TED Talk on AI and intelligence https://www.ted.com/speakers/anil_ananthaswamy Discover the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship that shaped Anil’s AI research https://ksj.mit.edu/ Understand the Perceptron, the foundation of neural networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron Read about the Perceptron Convergence Theorem and its significance https://www.nature.com/articles/323533a0…

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Pay Dirt: The Gas Rush in Modern Day Appalachia

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This is an eight-minute narrative and musical profile of the gas rush in central West Virginia with diverse voices and views produced by Talking Across the Lines on 4-18-14.

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Pay Dirt: The Gas Rush in Modern Day Appalachia

Michael and Carrie Kline, Talking Across the Lines

published hace 7 años

MP3•Episodio en casa

This is an eight-minute narrative and musical profile of the gas rush in central West Virginia with diverse voices and views produced by Talking Across the Lines on 4-18-14.

31 episodios

#Society #West Virginia #Michael and Carrie Kline, Talking Across the Lines #Carrie Kline #Talking Across The Lines

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EyesOnFreedom: Evolving Gifts of Simple Nonviolent Living 1:00:23

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Wally and Juanita Nelson were civil rights activists, peace activists, war tax refusers, subsistence farmers, and advocates for simple living. They were members of groups such as CORE (Congress on Racial Equality), FOR (Fellowship of Reconciliation), and Peacemakers. In western Massachusetts they were founding members of the Greenfield Farmers' Market, the Free Harvest Supper, the Valley Community Land Trust, and Winter Fare. They were recipients of numerous awards during their lifetime, including the Courage of Conscience Award from the Peace Abbey in Sherborn, Mass., the Sacco and Vanzetti Award from Community Church in Boston, and the Local Hero Award from CISA (Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture) for championing local food and agriculture. (Excerpted from https://www.nelsonhomestead.org) As folklorists, gatherers of oral testimonials and audio producers, we Klines, along with production assistant Nicholas Boyer, produced an hour-long audio tapestry. This is an interweaving of many of the 25 voices we've recorded near and far under the guidance of the Nelson Legacy Project Archival Committee. Each interview averages 90 minutes. We excerpt short portions in order to weave a conversation on the themes of the Nelsons' lives—race, or the one human race, nonviolence, war tax refusal, joy, dance, land trusts and the action around the Kehler-Corner home seizure in Colrain by the IRS, the local food movement and simple living. Most all of our documentaries have music woven throughout. We created a short piece on the Nelsons called You Don't Gotta. You can hear it on the Project website where you can also enjoy a great many other audiovisual pieces and writings featuring the Nelsons.…

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New Lights in the Dawnland 2:01:05

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“New Lights in the Dawnland” Recorded and Produced by Michael Kline, Talking Across the Lines, Sunderland, MA Time 2:00:08 “New Lights in the Dawnland” is a two hour audio documentary based on five individually recorded voices recounting 13,000 years of Indigenous history of Northfield and surrounding areas in Massachusetts and Vermont leading up to the arrival of English colonists in the 17th Century and the impacts of colonialism that followed. Replete with tribal songs, flute and drum interludes and ambient sounds, this conversational telling of the story creates its own imagery, to the considerable satisfaction of those whose voices are interwoven throughout. The five narrators recorded for “New Lights in the Dawnland” spoke from memory and the heart where memory dwells without notes or prior discussions as to the intended content of their testimonials. The five voices belong to old friends who have paid increasing collective attention to their own Indigenous cultures and histories, buttressed by a decade of archaeological research of their homelands and battlefields. It is a study of the confluence of the focused efforts of the five in the service of wider understanding and inclusion – among themselves and non-Indigenous neighbors. This production, then, has it's roots in intertribal memory and legend passed through a multi-generational conduit of oral tradition. Its sources are enriched through spiritual interaction with natural surroundings, as well as, more recently, the surfacing of old letters, diaries and other written colonial records. This production does not purport to be a polished or footnoted, scholarly, historical, rendering of Squakheag's past. Library bookshelves groan with euro-centric studies which have long peddled destructive stereotypes and historical inaccuracies. The response of these narrators is a passionate reaching out in search of balance and reciprocity in the telling of a shared past as a cornerstone to peace and reconciliation. It is dedicated to the life, accomplishments and speedy recovery of Doug Harris and his devoted new wife, Genevieve Frasier.…

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You Don't Gotta 10:58

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In honor of the 100th birthday of the late Juanita Nelson, we are posting this 11-minute audio teaser, a sampling of what is to become a longer piece imparting the clear and persuasive ways in which Wally and Juanita Nelson lived their lives. The Nelsons were beloved to hundreds of people. Wally and Juanita, who lived their final three decades in Western Massachusetts, worked a small plot of land, lived without electricity or running water, and actively resisted militarism and oppression, working in community with others. Learn more about them here: https://www.nelsonhomestead.org…

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Indigenous History in Northfield, Massachusetts 1:17:38

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Northfield, Massachusetts' Indigenous Origins This recorded testimonial is the account of an Indigenous resident of Northfield, Massachusetts, Joe Graveline, creating a sense of the town's pre-European history. Graveline's discourse is strongly rooted in archaeological and geological findings right around his own home and fields. He is open to the way the land itself speaks to him in the Connecticut River Valley. Here is the setting for 11,000 years of Indigenous intertribal exploration, settlement, and conquest along the vast waterway, told with animation and intimacy. Indigenous stories and memories have been long suppressed by those who spread out over these stolen lands we call New England. Isn't it the victors who always write the history? The clarity and passion of this account awakened us to new ways of thinking about New England culture and history—from an Indigenous point of view. Local Indigenous people have been reminding us that, “We are still here.” Those who left have in many cases returned. Those who never left are speaking their past, dancing the dances, singing the songs, chanting the chants and reseeding the land and culture with ancient knowledge. A grant from the Northfield Cultural Council, a branch of the Mass Cultural Council kicked off an oral history project to gather local memory about life and times of residents of this special town on the New Hampshire border in western Massachusetts. The 350th Committee stressed the need for an in depth understanding of pre-European settlement of the Town. Massachusetts State Senator Jo Comerford has supported the project and has been particularly concerned with our recording Indigenous narratives. This pleased us and we have been thoroughly enjoying interviewing Joe Graveline and other Indigenous scholars and cultural practitioners. The Northfield 350th Anniversary Oral History project has drawn intense interest from a wide variety of residents and turned up all kinds of profound renderings of the past. Much of the work has been carried out with grit and determination from local volunteers.…

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Brotherhood of the Spirit: A Tale of a 1970s New Age Community 1:05:19

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“Brotherhood of the Spirit:” An Unvarnished Window into New Age Communal Life of the Post-Vietnam Era in Western Massachusetts Recorded by Carrie Nobel Kline and Joan Stoia for the 350th Anniversary of Northfield, Massachusetts Oral History Project in the Fall of 2022. This 65-minute audio recorded narrative offers a moving, compellingly honest account of back-to-the-land, intentional, spiritual, drug-free, homegrown living by members of the “Brotherhood of the Spirit (BOS).” Founded by Michael Metelica in 1969, the nascent tree house gathering was driven by aspirations of simple living and honest dealings. From a rural hangout it soon became the promised land for many alienated, aimless youngsters, eager to embrace drug-free opportunities for collective living and collaborative accomplishments. Our protagonist, Mark Alvin, a current resident of Northfield, ruminates in compelling detail about the “fantastic adventures” of his seven years as a committed community member at a time when, “We thought we were going to save the world.” Mark Alvin found himself in the company of others consumed by desires to make art and music, “cooky, creative, wacky” people attracted to the place, along with a wide variety of misfits, artists, people just out of treatment centers and mental institutions. With all of this formative activity going on around him, tone-deaf Metelica, having the charismatic power of making others do what he wanted, was fixated on becoming a rock star. BOS, which by the early 1980s had acquired houses in other villages, went on to purchase the Shea Theater and surrounding block in Turners Falls, MA as the population of the Brotherhood blossomed to several hundred passionately involved members. Perhaps the most vivid of Alvin's descriptions depict farming operations in the Northfield bottom lands along the Connecticut River involving field crews with scores of young workers whose collective ambitions met all challenges with success and celebration. Reflecting on such a rich experience, Alvin exudes enthusiasm at the opportunity of finally fully sharing his story with people eager to hear it—and getting to tell it in his own way.…

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08 Fiddlin' John - John Johnson 8:45

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Fiddlin' John Johnson (An 8-minute radio piece from The Home Place Series) Produced by Michael Kline, supported by the Humanities Foundation of WV (1979) John Johnson, born and raised in Clay County, was a towering figure in the circle of legendary West Virginia fiddle players. His father, recognizing the boy's talent as a five year old, invited neighboring and distant fiddlers to come stay for days, even weeks, at a time to share their old tunes with such a willing young student. School was a row boat's pull across the Elk River and a mile's walk along the railroad tracks, a sometimes thing for him. John grew up doing all the hardest kind of work along side all the hardest kind of men. With people dropping by at all hours of the night to steal him away for dances and warm him with locally made refreshment, John developed an early taste for liquor, and, as a raging alcoholic, would ramble all over the southwestern states. When strangers heard him play they would invite him home, put him up and keep him around just for the eerie tunes. But he'd get restless in a few days and ramble on, wherever the winds blew him. He picked up Texas swing licks and every kind of a style he encountered in those twisted years. He pulled a long bow with so much torque it smoked. But I never saw him break a hair. John could play any tune in any key. His music was compelling, seductive, and over powering. To see and hear him play the fiddle, you'd have thought we was a devil incarnate. And in his poetry and art he equated his instrument with ungodly sources. His music and continence offered challenges I'd never met anywhere else. When asked by a BBC film crew about the kinds of occasions that prompted him to play, John answered that he liked best to take his fiddle up on the mountain and “play it for the trees.” What follows is an 8 minute audio portrait of the man and his music. Michael Kline…

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Sing Me Back Home: World Music in Western Massachusetts 1:00:16

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Rick Rees, Michael Hoberman, Carrie and Michael Kline created this radio piece in 1993 for WFCR, Public Radio of Western New England. Michael Kline recorded the interviews and musical sessions that make up this production while serving as folklorist for the Pioneer Valley Folklore Society. With funding the Mass Foundation for the Humanities, we were required to write and read a somewhat analytical-sounding narration that follows an otherwise seamless flow of voices and music, as newer and older groups of immigrants discuss and play examples of a living, changing music, carried from other lands, preserved and evolved in the Connecticut River Valley.…

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Remembering Blair Mountain 15:24

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Remembering Blair Mountain was written and produced by Miranda Brown while interning with Talking Across the Lines. Brown weaves oral history interviews recorded by Michael and Carrie Kline and music from the The Blair Pathways Project, produced by Sara Lynch Thomason. The Klines' interviewees were marching to Blair to commemorate the original march of 1921 and save the location of the original Battle of Blair Mountain was in danger from mountaintop removal mining. As of today it has been preserved. Known as the Redneck Army for their red neckerchiefs, ten thousand miners marched 50 miles in late August to early September of 1921, striving to end to the violence of the mine guard system of Baldwin Felts detectives and political complicity. Please let us know what you think of this production. Thanks!…

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Disaster at the Mannington Mines - Sarah Kaznowski 9:34

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In this powerful 8-minute program, union organizer and widow from the Mannington/Farmington Mine Disaster tells Michael Kline of the last day she spent with her husband. In 1968, 78 miners needlessly died in a West Virginia coal mining tragedy. For a deeper understanding of what really happened and how it could've been avoided, read The Memo, a chapter in Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction https://www.folktalk.org/merchandise/books/written-in-blood-courage-and-corruption-in-the-appalachian-war-of-extraction/ Set to the music of coalfield songwriters and performers Jean Ritchie and Hazel Dickens, with a taste of ballroom dance music, this incisive narrative performance brings home searingly the true cost of coal, borne for almost 150 years and still today, by the people of Appalachia.…

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Holding Rugged Ground: The Civil War Along the Staunton-Parkersburg Tpke 1:13:19

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Civil War enthusiasts will be captivated by the unfolding story of the Allegheny Mountain campaigns of early 1861 punctuated by lively West Virginia fiddle tunes and songs, cradled in the ambient sounds of the surrounding country side. Digitally recorded interviews with Pocahontas and Randolph County West Virginia elders detail memories of their families’ first-hand encounters in historic battles and their efforts to carry on daily life amidst the bloody War. The social divisions, passions and violence of the era left deep traces among the citizens of the new war-born state of West Virginia still resonating in recollections of their aging descendants. This production will engage listeners through its action-packed account of the Civil War in western Virginia, told by those who carry the tales forth from earlier times. "Holding Rugged Ground" is the second in a series of seven audio history productions exploring life along the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, an early toll road through the Appalachian Mountains of central West Virginia. Featuring first-hand accounts and remembered family lore of local elders, this production brings to life voices of local inhabitants and historians, to tell a story of the War that no one of them could have mustered alone. Over fifty oral history interviews were recorded and transcribed for the project, providing the grist for the script, and augmented by authentic folk music and sound effects recorded especially for the series. With major funding by a Scenic Byways grant from the Federal Department of Highways and the West Virginia Byways Program of the WV Department of Transportation, the project was made possible by administrative and financial support from the Rich Mountain Battlefield Foundation, the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike Alliance and Talking Across the Lines, LLC in Elkins, West Virginia. Eventually the entire series of seven productions will be here on the Talking Across the Lines podcast. Some are already here! To purchase your own CD or the entire series visit https://www.folktalk.org/shop/cds/.…

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Old Virginians And Wildcatters: War, Wealth and Work Along the Pike 1:18:54

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Although these stories, tunes and songs take place along the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike in northcentral West Virginia, they could be about many places in rural and small-town America. Part of Michael and Carrie Kline's 100-voice oral history project with 30 more musical performances by people along the historic road, themes in this podcast include the Civil War in western Virginia, the birth of West Virginia in the midst of the bloody Civil War, the origins and progression of the oil and gas industry, told by the people who lived it, along with an insider's view of small town life. This project was initiated by the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike Association, located in Beverly, West Virginia.…

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Took Off Running: Race and Culture Along the Turnpike 1:17:20

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Took Off Running is part of a series of audio history and musical productions that explore life along the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, an early toll road through the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia. Featuring first-hand accounts of local residents, this production brings to life voices of the region's inhabitants in a vibrant, fast-moving quilt of stories on race and ethnicity in the 19th and 20th century. Michael and Carrie Kline of Talking Across the Lines scripted and produced this documentary from 90 oral history interviews, seasoned with West Virginia music recorded especially for the series. Executive Producers: Phyllis Baxter and Mary Rayme Recording, Scripting & Audio Production: Michael and Carrie N. Kline Special Assistance: Bob Enoch, David McCain, David Scott, Jim Bailey and Joy Stalnaker…

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Switchbacks And Wagon Tracks 1:12:02

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Voices of the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike is a series of audio history productions that explore life along the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, an early toll road through the Appalachian Mountains of Central West Virginia. Featuring first-hand accounts of local elders, this production brings to life voices of the region’s inhabitants in vibrant stories and music. Over ninety oral histories augmented by musical selections and ambient sound recorded especially for the series. Switchbacks And Wagon Tracks: Building the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike takes listeners from Native American experience up to the American Civil War through vivid portrayals by historians and old-timers who remember what their elders told them.…

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Riding Freedoms Train: The Underground Railroad in the Upper Ohio Valley 58:11

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[Excerpted from the CD jacket of Riding Freedom's Train: The Underground Railroad in the Upper Ohio Valley] Wherever there are instances of institutionalized oppression and cruelty, history provides us with examples of people who risked everything to free themselves. And often, people nearby have aided in the escape from bondage. Thus, from the beginning of the enslavement of Africans on the American continent, there existed a clandestine means by which slaves fled captivity. The Underground Railroad was not a specific mode of travel nor a singular route, but rather, a secret illegal network which assisted slaves in their flight to freedom. Slaves freeing their owners traveled in many directions. Some planned to settle in the northern United States. Others chose to seek refuge outside of the United States borders in Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Europe or Africa. Still others were welcomed and sheltered by Native Americans such as the Seminole Indians. Most of the “conductors” on the Underground Railroad were free blacks, enslaved people, or their relations, yet many Euro-Americans alsdo devoted their lives to this clandestine movement. From the establishment of slavery in the U.S. until the end of the Civil War, between 30,000-100,000 escaping slaves traveled the network of roads, rivers, conveyances and safe houses that comprised the Underground Railroad. This was a brave and sometimes fortunate minority of the millions who were in captivity prior to the abolition of slavery. Most of those who escaped left everything and everyone they knew to be on the run, hunted in unknown territory, sneaking through the wilderness and exposing themselves to wild animals, hunger, terror, slave catchers and their hound dogs, not to mention the wrath of their master, if caught and returned. More information is available from kline@folktalk.org, or on our CD, Riding Freedom's Train, available at https://www.folktalk.org/merchandise/cds/compilations/i-believe-in-angels-singing-riding-freedoms-train-2-cd-set/…

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Gathered At The Ohio River 1:03:28

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Born And Raised In Tobacco Fields: Portrait of a Changing American Landscape 58:06

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Born & Raised in Tobacco Fields is a 58-minute audio documentary telling the vivid and complex story of the Tobacco Buyout in Calvert County, Maryland in 2003, the most monumental change in the economic and cultural landscape of southern Maryland since its founding as a tobacco producing colony in 1634. With a score of voices and songs, this production was the winner of the Oral History Association's Non-print Award in 2005. Written and produced by Talking Across the Lines, L.L.C.…

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Dark Was The Night - Etta Persinger 8:19

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Etta Persinger of Beckley, West Virginia describes a life of close knit family and church members, full of love and care. Close to her heart is shape note singing and "the old songs," as she calls them. Listen to her quiet passion and the power of the congregation "singing the shapes."

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The Spoken History Productions Of Michael And Carrie Kline - By Jean Snedegar 15:40

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This production, layered with local voices and music, aired on West Virginia Public Broadcasting in 2008 and remains current today. Radio producer Jean Snedegar produced this 15-minute documentary in which Michael and Carrie Kline discuss the power of documenting spoken history through deep listening. For more on the Klines' work visit www.folktalk.org and https://www.facebook.com/klinesacrossthelines…

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The Red Robin Inn - Charlie Blevins 8:57

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Charlie Blevins is an extraordinary musician and storyteller. A coal miner who made his home in southern West Virginia, he owned and operated the Red Robin Inn in the coalfields of Mingo County. Tune in for some the best and most authentic performances of traditional music you'll ever hear. Feel the pathos when he says the new highway, "Corridor G is going to wipe out our heritage," built in the path of this historic tavern.…

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Hope Shorts Series—Stretching The Limits 10:59

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To rockin' tunes and blues numbers, Nathan Shelton and Brenda Jackson, alumni of Mount Hope High School in Fayette County, West Virginia, each tell of their own devastating collision with racism in their school years during the 1960s. They, along with Elinor Agee, discuss the ways in which interracial families have always been part of the fabric of West Virginia life and have become perhaps more so in recent times. Tune in for music, humor, pathos and ample resilience.…

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Remembering Blair Mountain 15:25

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In honor of the current Centennial of the March on Blair Mountain and Battle of Blair Mountain, we're reposting a favorite piece. Remembering Blair Mountain was written and produced by Miranda Brown while interning with Talking Across the Lines. Brown weaves oral history interviews recorded by Michael and Carrie Kline and music from the The Blair Pathways Project, produced by Sara Lynch Thomason. The Klines' interviewees were marching to Blair to commemorate the original march of 1921 and save the location of the original Battle of Blair Mountain was in danger from mountaintop removal mining. As of today it has been preserved. Known as the Redneck Army for their red neckerchiefs, ten thousand miners marched 50 miles in late August to early September of 1921, striving to end to the violence of the mine guard system of Baldwin Felts detectives and political complicity. They fought it out in the Battle of Blair Mountain. Let us know what you think of this production!…

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Revelations: A Celebration of Appalachian Resiliency in GLBTQ People 1:40:26

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Revelations: A Staged Reading Celebrating Appalachian Resiliency in GLBTQ People, was performed for its 17th time in Shepherdstown, West Virginia April 12, 2019 as part of the SpeakStory Series and is presented as part of our Talking Across the Lines podcast. We are available to produce it in your community with a volunteer cast over a fire day residency. Revelations is a theatrical presentation on Appalachian resiliency in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people written and produced by folklorist Carrie Nobel Kline, Spring 2001 Rockefeller Fellowship recipient and Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. In Revelations, Carrie interweaves excerpts from oral testimonials she recorded with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered West Virginians. Carrie explains, “This 13-person reader’s theatre production illuminates these West Virginians’ determination to express themselves in a way that is worthy of respect and admiration. Revealing their paths toward self-acceptance, audience members will glean a fresh perspective on concepts of gender from people who have broadened their own views through complex intellectual and spiritual journeys.” In the course of her Rockefeller Fellowship, Carrie Nobel Kline conducted a dozen interviews with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people. One interviewee is from outside the Appalachian region, and the rest are from West Virginia. The focus of Kline’s research is on resiliency, especially Appalachian resiliency. Because of the confidentiality of the field research, she chose to employ actors to read the words of those interviewed. Revelations focuses on people’s paths to hard won self-acceptance and their journeys toward a fuller sense of humanity. https://www.folktalk.org/spoken-histories/glbt-stories/…

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Hope Shorts Series—Climbing Education's Ladder 22:49

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To the tune of country blues and jazz, played by coalfield bluesman Nat Reese on guitar and Ralph Gordon on bass, African American educators and esteemed community members talk about the obstacles and impetuses related to getting an education. What were the losses in terms of community support for black students, once schools integrated? Students black and white learned widely from the few but powerful black educators who kept their teaching jobs through integration.…

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Hope Shorts Series—What Our Mothers Taught Us 14:24

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Ollie Watts Davis and Willie Ben Pritchett paint pictures of their mothers, grandmothers, early teachings and shortfalls driven by alcohol in one case and racial discrimination in both. Willie Ben even gives a lesson on housecleaning. "Most people just organize a little," he says, detailing how much his mother taught him to survive, when she was able. Dr. Davis treats us to an operatic grand finale performing one of the most uplifting gospel songs.…

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Hope Shorts Series—Willie Ben - Blacks Clueless About College Admissions 11:41

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Willie Ben Pritchett, an Honors Student, football and track star and glee club member, discusses the educational dead ends for black students at Mount Hope High School when he graduated in 1964, unless the students already had a family member with experience in navigating the college admissions process. Pritchett goes on to describe how he survived and finally thrived. He exemplifies the idea of “each one pull one,” on an underground railroad from Mount Hope, WV to Washington, D.C.…

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Hope Shorts Series—Home Grown, Made From Scratch, Preserved To Last 10:43

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Hope Shorts Series—Baby Red, Baby Ray, Movies & Lemonade Cups 10:22

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In this interweaving of oral histories and music, natives of Mount Hope, West Virginia discuss their close knit relationships across racial lines in the 1940s to '70s, as well as the ways local adults shielded young blacks from institutional racism. "I never had to be false to myself. I could always be me. And I'm proud of that," says Mount Hope mother Bernice Clayton.…

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Singing The Blues - Nat Reese 8:46

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This West Virginia bluesman describes the span of his career throughout the southern coalfields. His dad came from Virginia "to shake that money tree," but precious little shook loose. Nat Reese expresses humor and pathos through music and narrative in this eight-minute production made with WV Humanities support by Michael Kline in the 1980s while working on staff at the Augusta Heritage Center. Photo is by the great Douglas O. Yarrow.…

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Hope Series Part 2: Dollars & Cents: Race and Class in the West Virginia Coalfields 58:30

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Hope Series Part 1: Game Changer: Football as a Catalyst for Peaceable School Integration 58:09

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Pay Dirt: The Gas Rush in Modern Day Appalachia 7:42

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