By Betty Dotson-Lewis

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Arts and Culture | Food

10/09/2009

Fall brings sights, sounds and smells to my community in West Virginia. There are jar flies at night and on weekends they are cooking apple butter at the church.

BioFuels and Energy | Health

The Worst Industrial Disaster in Our History

09/15/2009

Black workers from the Deep South came to West Virginia looking for work. What they found in the tunnel was a death sentence.

BioFuels and Energy | Health | Politics and Government

Speak Your Piece: Black Lung Rising

07/16/2009

It can take years for underground coal miners to qualify for black lung benefits. Then they have to do it all over again.

Ag and Trade | Cool Places | Main Street Economics

Buyers Win, Sellers Win

06/25/2009

flea market boots One sliver-sized sector of the U.S. economy is going strong: flea markets. You want to get rid of it and I've got to have it, n'est-ce pas?

Cool Places | Education

A Place That Has Made a Difference

06/04/2009

Betty Dotson-Lewis

Thousands of poor Appalachian students have found a way to Berea College. I was just one of them.

Arts and Culture | Environment | Religion and Faith

The Preacher and Mountaintop Removal

05/12/2009

Another good reason not to pollute the land. God lives in the same neigborhood!

Cool Places | Media

'I Need to Hold My Paper'

03/19/2009

nicholas county thumb Dailies are on hard times, but weekly newspaper readership is hard core. Betty Dotson-Lewis profiles the 127-year-old paper that provoked ten thousand clippings.

Food | Health | Media

Speak Your Piece: About 'Mountain Dew Mouth'

02/21/2009

When tobacco was found to be both addictive and unhealthful, it was regulated and the companies agreed not to market to children. Well, how about Mountain Dew?