Dan Gellert and Ma Crow in a scene from The Mountain Minor. (Courtesy of Al452 Productions)
The film adaptation of Hillbilly Elegy has renewed spirited conversations about the JD Vance memoir. Tom Eblen discusses it with Cassie Chambers Armstrong, author of an Atlantic critique of the film, as well as a new book detailing her perspective on growing up in Appalachian Kentucky. And we hear from the director and two cast members of the film “The Mountain Minor,” something of an antidote to Hillbilly Elegy, driven by the music of the mountains. | A future history teacher takes cues from 2020, a year like no other. | Poet Carrie Green discusses and offers a reading from her new release, “Studies of Familiar Birds”, a meditation on grief and the loss of a father | Scott Whiddon details the two-volume album of instrumentals, “Songs from Quarantine” by Archipelago | WEKU’s Cheri Lawson visits Kentucky’s “Kindness Capitol.”
Interviews in order of appearance
Tom Eblen with Cassie Chambers Armstrong