Tim Carmichael

The Best Halloween Memory in Rural Appalachia Halloween in the mountains had a feeling all its own. The air turned sharp with the smell of wood smoke, and leaves crunched under our feet like dry cornflakes. The hills of Marshall, North Carolin…

What was your best Halloween memory?
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Who Owns Appalachia? Outside Ownership and Land Exploitation Appalachia carries a long running legacy of extraction. Coal seams, timber stands, gas deposits and fertile valleys attracted waves of investment across two centuries. Ownership patterns establishe…

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Appalachia Killed the Hillbilly The world mocked the hillbilly until the hillbilly vanished. What replaced him smiled on camera, quoted Faulkner, wore vintage denim, and told stories that sold. The accent softened. The hands came…

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God’s Country or Man’s Cage? Inside the Silent Rise of Christian Nationalism in Rural Appalachia Drive through the small towns of eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia or any part of Appalachia and the first thing that stands out is not the poverty or the abandoned factories. It is the chur…

What do you think is happening in Appalachia with the rise of Christian Nationalism?

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Are Appalachian Superstitions Real or Made Up? In the foggy hollers and ridges of the Appalachian Mountains, folklore lingers like smoke from an old woodstove. Stories echo through hollows, warnings are whispered along front porches, and tradit…

What do you think?
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Leave the Hellbender Alone- A Call to Protect Appalachia’s Giant Salamander In the cold, rocky streams of the Appalachian Mountains lives one of the most mysterious and ancient creatures in North America: the hellbender salamander. Few people have ever seen one in the wild…

Just leave them alone and stop stacking rocks:

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Cancer Rates Remain Higher in Appalachia, With Central Appalachia Hit Hardest Cancer continues to represent one of the greatest health challenges in the United States, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives each year despite advances in medical technology and treatment. Whi…

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How Do We Heal This Country? I Don’t Even Recognize America Anymore America feels like a shadow of its former self. The country I once knew, where neighbors cared for neighbors and communities lifted each other up, feels fractured. Anger spreads across the nation, …

How do we do it?

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McCarthy, Wheeling, and the Roots of Anti-Communist Hysteria in Appalachia On February 9, 1950, in the Appalachian city of Wheeling, West Virginia, Joseph McCarthy delivered a speech that changed the direction of American politics. At the time, he was a relatively unknown…

I never made the connection until I was writing this.
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Appalachia's Mountain Pharmacy: A Guide to Foraging, Healing Herbs, and Recipes Appalachia's Mountain Pharmacy: A Guide to Foraging, Healing Herbs, and Recipes [Carmichael, Tim] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Appalachia's Mountain Pharmacy: A Guide to Foraging, Healing Herbs, and Recipes

Check out my new book "Appalachia's Mountain Pharmacy"
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What J.D. Vance Got Wrong About Appalachia in Hillbilly Elegy When J.D. Vance first published Hillbilly Elegy in 2016, the book was quickly embraced as a cultural touchstone, an explanation, at least in the eyes of many coastal journalists, for the rise of wo…

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Rebuilding Appalachia: One Year After Hurricane Helene Almost a year has passed since Hurricane Helene tore through the southeastern United States in September 2024, leaving widespread destruction across multiple states and particularly devastating the…

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How Gerrymandering Hurts the People of Appalachia For generations, the Appalachian region has been portrayed as a place apart from the rest of the United States, an often-forgotten landscape of mountains, coal mines, tight-knit communities, and st…

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Appalachia in the Dark: How Data Centers and Rising Energy Costs Threaten Virginia’s and other Appalachian states Most Vulnerable In 2024, according to research from the Energy Justice Lab at Indiana University, Dominion Energy disconnected electricity service from a staggering 339,000 households across Virginia for nonpaymen…

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The Art of Becoming Nothing Seven Sacred Steps to Sublime Dissolution

A poem I wrote:

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The Turn of the Meadow The moment after one field, before the next

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Phillis Wheatley: America’s First Black Literary Voice From stolen childhood to literary triumph the true story behind Wheatley’s rise from slavery to the heights of American letters

The incredible story of Poet Phillis Wheatley
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How Many Relate to This? What We Actually Do A Wednesday Evening Confession

Most people in the world can relate to this poem: If you would be so kind and to share this, I would be forever grateful!
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Where the Light Touches the moment before everything begins again

A poem to get your day started off right: #bluesky, #booksky, #poetry, #poem, #reading, #books, #poet, #author, #read @npr.org

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Song of the Living Earth Come! Let us walk barefoot through the dew.

A Poem I wrote "Song of the Living Earth"

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The Quiet Cut: Sterilization and the War on the "Unfit" How a Nation Built on Freedom Silenced Thousands Through Eugenics

Did you know that the United States once sterilized people whom they deemed "unfit"?

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Southern Baptists Condemn Same-Sex Marriage, While Ignoring Their Own Sins While calling for a national ban on same-sex unions, the SBC still harbors abusers in its pulpits and refuses to fully confront its history of sexual abuse.

Sick of sitting still and doing nothing.

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The Truth About the Tulsa Race Massacre, and Why So Few Were Taught It What They Tried to Burn Down

Did you know about the Tulsa Race Massacre? One of the most tragic and often overlooked events in American history.

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Bloodroot and Coal Dust Bloodroot and Coal Dust [Carmichael, Tim] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Bloodroot and Coal Dust

My new book "Bloodroot and Coal Dust" has been published. It's a great book of poems about Appalachia and growing up there. #appalachia #poetry #writers #author #tonyawards #poems #booksky #books #bookworm #reading #read
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Heaven Ain’t Far Where the weary find their wings

This is a poem that I wrote.
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Whiskey and Wildflowers: Growing Up in the Heart of Appalachia A Story of Family, Moonshine, and the Unbreakable Spirit of a Small Mountain Town

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Six Months After Hurricane Helene, Rebuilding Efforts Stalled in Southern Appalachia Nearly six months after Hurricane Helene’s catastrophic path through western North Carolina and East Tennessee, not a single home has been officially rebuilt in the hardest-hit areas, highlig…

It's a shame that political figures are interfering with rebuilding efforts.
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BOOKS: Area Author Explores Healing Secrets Of Appalachian Granny Witches Area author Tim Carmichael has published a new book, entitled "The Magic of the Mountains: Appalachian Granny Witches and Their Healing Secrets."

Crazy that this is all happening. But I am very grateful!
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MOUNTAIN ROOTS St. Patrick’s Day in Appalachia: A Celebration of Scots-Irish Heritage In the heart of Appalachia, St. Patrick’s Day is more than a global celebration of Irish culture—it’s a deeply personal …

Many people in Appalachia are celebrating St Patrick's day and their Irish heritage. appalachianmemories.org/2025/03/17/m...
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Ola Belle Reed: The Enduring Voice of Appalachia A native of Ashe County, North Carolina, born in 1916, Ola Belle Reed grew into one of the most authentic voices in Appalachian folk music. While she may not have achieved mainstream fame, Reed&#82…

Ola Belle Reed had a powerful voice and sang about the hardships of Appalachia, making her a remarkable folk music artist
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