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Tim Carmichael
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I'm a published author. My latest poetry book, Bloodroot and Coal Dust, explores life in Appalachia. I share stories and poems inspired by the region’s people and beauty. Follow along and be part of the journey.
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What was your best Halloween memory?
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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…
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October 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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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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October 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Did Appalachia Kill the Hillbilly? appalachianmemories.org/2025/10/09/a...
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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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October 9, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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What do you think is happening in Appalachia with the rise of Christian Nationalism?

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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…
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October 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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What do you think?
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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…
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October 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Just leave them alone and stop stacking rocks:

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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…
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September 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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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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September 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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How do we do it?

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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, …
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September 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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I never made the connection until I was writing this.
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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…
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September 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Check out my new book "Appalachia's Mountain Pharmacy"
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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
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September 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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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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August 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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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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August 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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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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August 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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#poverty #appalachia #appalachianmountains #appleconflict #southpark #data #datacenter #reading #news #breakingnews #appalachianstates #virginia #tennessee #kentucky #westvirginia #northcarolina #georgia #energy #indianauniversity
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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August 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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A poem I wrote:

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The Art of Becoming Nothing
Seven Sacred Steps to Sublime Dissolution
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August 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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A poem I wrote about walking in nature: vocal.media/poets/the-tu...
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The Turn of the Meadow
The moment after one field, before the next
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August 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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The incredible story of Poet Phillis Wheatley
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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
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July 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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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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How Many Relate to This? What We Actually Do
A Wednesday Evening Confession
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July 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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A poem to get your day started off right: #bluesky, #booksky, #poetry, #poem, #reading, #books, #poet, #author, #read @npr.org

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Where the Light Touches
the moment before everything begins again
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July 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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A Poem I wrote "Song of the Living Earth"

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Song of the Living Earth
Come! Let us walk barefoot through the dew.
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June 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Did you know that the United States once sterilized people whom they deemed "unfit"?

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The Quiet Cut: Sterilization and the War on the "Unfit"
How a Nation Built on Freedom Silenced Thousands Through Eugenics
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June 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Sick of sitting still and doing nothing.

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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.
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June 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Did you know about the Tulsa Race Massacre? One of the most tragic and often overlooked events in American history.

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The Truth About the Tulsa Race Massacre, and Why So Few Were Taught It
What They Tried to Burn Down
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June 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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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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Bloodroot and Coal Dust
Bloodroot and Coal Dust [Carmichael, Tim] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Bloodroot and Coal Dust
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June 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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This is a poem that I wrote.
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Heaven Ain’t Far
Where the weary find their wings
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March 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM