Bridging Appalachia

A Baltimorean folklorist in Ireland to explore story as medicine and the preservation of traditional foodways and medicine techniques in Irish lore.


  • Why Bridging Appalachia?

    โ€œThe Appalachian Mountains in the ๐—จ๐—ฆ were formed thanks to collisions of the Earthโ€™s tectonic plates. When the continents we know today separated, parts of the Appalachians ended in the US, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the British Isles, ๐—œ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ, the Iberian Peninsula and the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.โ€ (๐˜ฉ๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ฑ๐˜ด://๐˜ธ๐˜ธ๐˜ธ.๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ.๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ/๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ-๐˜ถ๐˜ด/๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ป๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ/๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ/๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ฏ-๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ญ/)(link in bio) When Scot-Irish immigrants began their…

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