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    • About Eastern Standard
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  • Contributors & Series
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    • Carolyn Dupont - Civics, Civility and the Path to a Shared American Future
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    • Brigitte Blom | Gill Hunter: Education and Economy
    • James Branscome
    • The Art of the Originals
    • Gerald Smith: Racial Justice and Equality
    • Kevin Nance - Kentucky Literature
    • Tom Eblen: Kentucky Literature
    • RISE Documentary Series
    • Zach Brock: Music Interviews
    • Bill McCann: Theatre, Stage & Radio
    • Radio Plays
    • America's Flirtation with Authoritarianism
    • A Constitutional Debate
    • Chris Begley: Essays
    • Future Tense with Chris Begley
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    • SPJ Code of Ethics
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James Branscome 

James Branscome has been writing about Appalachia for over five decades in the New York Times and Washington Post, as well as in such local publications as the Mountain Eagle of Whitesburg, KY, and more recently on the websites of the Daily Yonder, Cardinal News, Kentucky Lantern, West Virginia Watch, and his substack.  A Berea College graduate, retired senior vice president of McGraw-Hill Publications Co. and retired Managing Director of Standard and Poor’s, Branscome is from Carroll County, Virginia.  In these conversations, we discuss his well-informed reporting on life and conditions in the mountain region of eastern Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia and Tennessee.

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    The Dragon Comes to the Mountains 14:48
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    Revisiting the notion of a 51st "State of Appalachia" 11:28
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    Proposing an Appalachian Homestead Act 16:05
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