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The Addictive Act of Self-Sufficiency
Always Unattainable but Ever Worthy
 • Rachel Sager
Do Heirlooms Even Matter Anymore?
The Childless Conversation that No One Wants to Hear
 • Rachel Sager
Cooking the Fat with Family
Tallow: An Old Way with New Energy
 • Rachel Sager
How to Finish a Book that Breaks Your Heart: A Review of Demon Copperhead
The Subject of Tragedy in Appalachia
 • Rachel Sager
How to Have an Appalachian Yard
Or, how to cultivate a NO HOA zone.
 • Rachel Sager

Cabin Confidential: A Remedy for Modernity

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Cooking the Fat with Family
Tallow: An Old Way with New Energy
 • Rachel Sager
Men Who Hang Their Own Curtains
Chapter Seven of Cabin Confidential
 • Rachel Sager
Moving Very Heavy Things
Chapter Five of Cabin Confidential with a bonus Chapter of The Randall Knife
 • Rachel Sager
Authentic Joy Requires No Audience
Chapter Four of Cabin Confidential
 • Rachel Sager
From the Pond to the Bulldozer
Chapter Three of Cabin Confidential
 • Rachel Sager
Do You Read the Signs?
Chapter Two of Cabin Confidential
 • Rachel Sager
A Decision Made Over Garlic Shrimp
Chapter One of Cabin Confidential
 • Rachel Sager

The Effie Chapters: An Appalachian Memoir

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Effie: An Old Story, Finally Written Down
Chapter One reposted for New Subscribers
 • Rachel Sager
Appalachian Music: A True Response to Life
Music that makes you remember who you are.
 • Rachel Sager
Appalachia is Memory: Yours, Mine, Ours
Effie: An Old Story, Finally Written Down
 • Rachel Sager
Looking Death in the Eye, and Making Music
Effie Chapter Three
 • Rachel Sager
You Can Take the Old Woman Out of the Mountain
Effie: Chapter Two
 • Rachel Sager
Effie: An Old Story, Finally Written Down
Chapter One of a Mountain Memoir
 • Rachel Sager

Recent posts

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The Poison and its Cure are Often in Bed Together
Appalachian Alchemists: The Light and the Dark
 • Rachel Sager
My Husband Warned Me: Do Not Come Home with a Sheep
Finding the people who work in the auld ways.
 • Rachel Sager
Appalachian Music: A True Response to Life
Music that makes you remember who you are.
 • Rachel Sager
The Fine Art of Porch Sitting
Remembering How to Not be Busy
 • Rachel Sager
The Independent Appalachian
The Hen Under the Porch: An Upstairs/Downstairs Story
 • Rachel Sager
J.D. Vance: The Ultimate Appalachian Escape Artist
Leaving versus staying
 • Rachel Sager
Writing about Appalachia: Is it a Job or a Joy?
YES.
 • Rachel Sager
The Appalachian Interrogation
A backwoods dive bar as cultural microcosm
 • Rachel Sager

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For some it's a slight to be left out, for others it's an insult to be included. Digging deep to find real stories hidden between the hills and hollers, the mountains and rivers of Appalachia.
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