This week on Mountain Talk, in honor of Hallowe’en (yes, on this show, we use the apostrophe), we’ve got a whole show full of ‘haint’ tales and spooky stories, told by mountain people, from across the Appalshop & WMMT archives. We’ll hear about a spirit appearing to Letcher County logging workers in the 1930’s; a hungry witch, who shows up out of thin air at a remote campfire; a bossy ghost; someone seeing the devil on her bedroom ceiling; an angel who shows up needing a place to crash for the night; and even a mysterious blue light that appeared one night to Letcher Co. master banjo player Morgan Sexton. Among the many voices featured this week are that of Knott Co.’s Florida Slone, and the nationally-renowned North Carolina storyteller Ray Hicks.
(Music in this episode is from: Tommy Hunter, from the record “Deep in Tradition” on our own June Appal Records; Morgan Sexton, from the record “Rock Dust,” also on June Appal; and by Debbie Grim, from the June Appal record “Banjer Days.” All three of these records can be purchased or streamed for free at our Bandcamp page: https://juneappalrecordings.bandcamp.com/.)
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This week on Mountain Talk, in honor of Hallowe’en (yes, on this show, we use the apostrophe), we’ve got a whole show full of ‘haint’ tales and spooky stories, told by mountain people, from across the Appalshop & WMMT archives. We’ll hear about a spirit appearing to Letcher County logging workers in the 1930’s; a hungry witch, who shows up out of thin air at a remote campfire; a bossy ghost; someone seeing the devil on her bedroom ceiling; an angel who shows up needing a place to crash for the night; and even a mysterious blue light that appeared one night to Letcher Co. master banjo player Morgan Sexton. Among the many voices featured this week are that of Knott Co.’s Florida Slone, and the nationally-renowned North Carolina storyteller Ray Hicks.
(Music in this episode is from: Tommy Hunter, from the record “Deep in Tradition” on our own June Appal Records; Morgan Sexton, from the record “Rock Dust,” also on June Appal; and by Debbie Grim, from the June Appal record “Banjer Days.” All three of these records can be purchased or streamed for free at our Bandcamp page: https://juneappalrecordings.bandcamp.com/.)
Mountain Talk: The Big, Beautiful Bill's Cuts to Medicaid & Changes to SNAP; Cornbread; WMMT History
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Mountain Talk: The Big, Beautiful Bill's Cuts to Medicaid & Changes to SNAP; Cornbread; WMMT History
In this edition of WMMT's Mountain Talk, we have a grab bag of a show.
First, we hear about how the so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill” could affect low-income Kentuckians’ ability to stay enrolled in Medicaid and the SNAP program, through a presentation put on by Kentucky Voices for Health in Hazard last month. For the Cliff's Notes version: via cuts to Medicaid and changes to SNAP, the newly-passed, Trump-backed bill is projected (by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office) to cause ~7 1/2 million people nationwide to lose access to Medicaid, and ~2 1/2 million people across the US to lose access to SNAP.
But then, we shift gears to a topic that is maybe… universally beloved? If such a thing exists in these times. And that, of course, is cornbread. Second on our show, we hear an excellent installment of the Center for Rural Strategies’ Rural Remix podcast series, about that most august of dishes, via an interview with the poet Tina Mozelle Braziel.
And, just in time for our 40th b-day next month, we close things out with some WMMT History, including interviews with Evan Smith (longtime host of the landmark WMMT show "Ska, Punk, & Other Junk") and Randy Wilson (host of the inimitable, long-running WMMT show "Kids' Radio").
(MUSIC IN TODAY'S SHOW comes from: John McCutcheon, from the June Appal Records release "The Wind that Shakes the Barley"; Glenn Jones, via the Free Music Archive; and Don Bikoff, also via the Free Music Archive.)
WMMT Public Affairs & Podcasts
This week on Mountain Talk, in honor of Hallowe’en (yes, on this show, we use the apostrophe), we’ve got a whole show full of ‘haint’ tales and spooky stories, told by mountain people, from across the Appalshop & WMMT archives. We’ll hear about a spirit appearing to Letcher County logging workers in the 1930’s; a hungry witch, who shows up out of thin air at a remote campfire; a bossy ghost; someone seeing the devil on her bedroom ceiling; an angel who shows up needing a place to crash for the night; and even a mysterious blue light that appeared one night to Letcher Co. master banjo player Morgan Sexton. Among the many voices featured this week are that of Knott Co.’s Florida Slone, and the nationally-renowned North Carolina storyteller Ray Hicks.
(Music in this episode is from: Tommy Hunter, from the record “Deep in Tradition” on our own June Appal Records; Morgan Sexton, from the record “Rock Dust,” also on June Appal; and by Debbie Grim, from the June Appal record “Banjer Days.” All three of these records can be purchased or streamed for free at our Bandcamp page: https://juneappalrecordings.bandcamp.com/.)
