by Maggie Bowling
Breaking Beans Profiles Whitley Farmer
Agape Lland Llamas
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Breaking Beans Features Whitley County Business
Wrigley Taproom and Brewery
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by Maggie Bowling
For Kristin Smith of The Wrigley Taproom and Brewery, starting a restaurant is about using the whole hog and engaging the entire community. Not only is Kristin the mastermind behind the creative and delicious dishes coming out of the Wrigley kitchen, she is also the main producer of the meat served in the restaurant.
Justified comes to Harlan
"Justified:” the fictional television series, centered around a U.S. Marshal in Harlan County who deals his own brand of justice, comes to an end Tuesday, and Series Creator Graham Yost says he wanted to do something special for the region that inspired its setting.
The Atlantic Article by Alana Semuels
Imagining a Post-Coal Appalachia
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WHITESBURG, Ky.—For a long time, coal dominated this remote region of rolling hilltops and muddy roads near the Tennessee and Virginia borders. But when the nation started to move away from coal-fired power plants, and giant companies pulled up stakes and closed down mines, shedding 7,000 jobs in just three years, the people left too. Some went to western Kentucky for mining jobs there, others headed to Lexington or Louisville. Nearly every county in eastern Kentucky lost jobs between 2000 and 2010.
Even before the mines started closing, children who grew up in Appalachia were often told to get out if they wanted to succeed. One-third of the regionlives in poverty. In one eastern Kentucky county in 2009, government benefits accounted formore than halfof the county’s personal income.
