Spring is in the air.
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This week’s newsletter is landing a couple of days later than usual. I’ve been at the Appalachian Studies Association conference for the last several days and am just now getting a chance to sit still for a minute.
Spring is finally here and it won’t be long until we’re all outside more and complaining about the heat. Turkey season is less than a month away here in West Virginia and our lakes are getting stocked with trout. Soon, it’ll be time to add compost to the garden and start prepping the ground to see what we can grow this year.
Spring will also bring fox kits to our ridge again. I’ve spotted momma fox several times in the last few weeks. I recently bought Adele Brand’s The Hidden World of the Fox and am excited to learn more about these incredible creatures.
The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum team presented and tabled at this year’s Appalachian Studies Association conference at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia.
Speaking of the West Virginia Mine Wars, I recently bought a copy of Anne Lawrence’s On Dark and Bloody Ground: An Oral History of the West Virginia Mine Wars without realizing I already had a copy (the receipt inside was from October 2023).
If you’d like my extra copy, leave a comment on this post indicating you’d like to have it and I’ll select a winner by the end of the week.
I hope you’re able to get outside this week and enjoy spring. Thanks for reading my newsletter and for your support! Please consider sharing this with someone you think might be interested. And, as always, take care of each other.
- Roger
So glad I got to say hi at ASA, it was nice catching up with folks!
I'd love to have a copy of the book. It was already on my list.