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“By the equinox on 22 September, the fields have been shorn of crops, the main crop potatoes are being harvested, and the sun’s heat has greatly lessened. Stubble remains. The nights are longer and the shadows come earlier, with that peculiarly beautiful slant of sun…[it] is a month of clearing, cleaning, digging.” (The Turning of
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In Western cultures, a drive for individualism and accumulation has frequently led to severance of familial and cultural ties, which leaves individuals with a sense of alienation and societies with limited solutions to systemic inequities in healthcare access. Ancestral narratives and lifeways, which emphasize community resilience and stewardship of nature can provide supplements or alternatives
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“The Appalachian Mountains in the 𝗨𝗦 were formed thanks to collisions of the Earth’s tectonic plates. When the continents we know today separated, parts of the Appalachians ended in the US, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the British Isles, 𝗜𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, the Iberian Peninsula and the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.” (𝘩𝘵𝘵𝘱𝘴://𝘸𝘸𝘸.𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥.𝘤𝘰𝘮/𝘦𝘯-𝘶𝘴/𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘦/𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨/𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘢𝘯-𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭/)(link in bio) When Scot-Irish immigrants began their
Bridging Appalachia
A Baltimorean folklorist in Ireland to explore story as medicine and the preservation of traditional foodways and medicine techniques in Irish lore.
Bridging Appalachia 