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W.Va. Receives More Than $202 Million In Federal Health Funds

West Virginia has been awarded $202,081,355 for the second year of the federal government's Rural Health Transformation Program.

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Handmade Music School And American Chestnuts Trees, Inside Appalachia

This week, a new generation is learning the story behind "Brown Hill," a song by influential bluegrass band The Lost and Found. Also, data centers are changing the landscape, and one project is planning to plow over an extremely rare stand of seed-producing American chestnut trees. And, small food producers embrace digital technology for the humble farm stand.

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Franklin County Banjo Player Gene Parker Made His Instrument Sing

Young students at Floyd County, Virginia’s Handmade Music School are compiling a songbook of tunes that have become standards in their community. One of those songs came from influential Virginia bluegrass band The Lost & Found. This summer, Handmade Music School student Rylah Grim spoke with the band’s longtime banjo player Gene Parker, about a song he helped write, called “Brown Hill.”

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'These Dreaming Hills' Shares Dynamic Appalachian Storytelling

A new anthology collects science fiction, fantasy and horror stories from writers across Appalachia. It’s called, These Dreaming Hills. Inside Appalachia Producer Bill Lynch recently spoke with the anthology's editor, Noah Ashley Blooms.

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