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What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia - Belt Magazine
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What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia By Elizabeth Catte February 6, 2018 Available for order here. In 2016 headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America’s “forgotten tribe” of white working class voters. Journalists flocked to the region to extract sympathetic profiles of families...
on Jul 15
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Improvising Milwaukee and Jazz - Belt Magazine
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Milwaukee’s actually representative in many ways of jazz in other cities. “It’s probably no different than any other Midwest city.... you have these smaller midsize, Midwest cities like Columbus, Ohio, and Milwaukee, and Cleveland. They have this great history, but it’s largely unacknowledged by...
on Sep 19
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J.D. Vance’s Long Con - Belt Magazine
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The 'Hillbilly Elegy' author's Trumpian transformation is complete.
on Jul 17
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St. Louis Brick by Brick - Belt Magazine
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To understand the history of St. Louis’s bricks is to unearth systems of power, economy, dispossession, decline, and manifest destiny; the storybook decorative brickwork we see today becomes a tale as complex—and as sinister—as American history itself.
on Apr 5
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Consider the Pawpaw - Belt Magazine
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Not everyone knows what a pawpaw is. Until more recently, it has been discarded and forgotten, falling in and out of favor over the years. For some, it is a luscious dessert, a delightful treasure hiding in the woods. For others, it is, to say the least, an acquired taste (and texture). It is an enigma.
on Mar 1
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The History of American Music, as Recorded in Richmond, Indiana - Belt Magazine
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How one Midwestern record company changed the course of popular music.
on Oct 31
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God Damn It Be Kind - Belt Magazine
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“Like homing pigeons,” a man in a New York bar once told me about Pittsburghers. “You leave. You go back. You’re lucky. There aren’t many places like that.”
on Oct 14
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Jim Jordan’s Gerrymandered District - Belt Magazine
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In the Ohio 4th, as in gerrymandered districts all over the country, democracy is at stake.
on Oct 14
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The Ohio Organization Rekindling Indigenous Foodways - Belt Magazine
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How 'Native American street food' is helping to keep tribal cultures alive.
on Oct 9