"If I am not helping to create more people like me... then I risk my art form dying with me" - Jennifer Rose Ramsay Escobar teaches elementary school kids how to play the dulcimer using cardboard instruments. After a week of sessions the class gives a school concert. Her words about creativity and music and learning are so inspiring. She's part of my #portrait series #100days100voices for #100daysinappalachia #appalachia #berea #bereaky #thisisappalachia #dulcimer #appalachianmusic #kentucky #ky #appalachiaincolor #ontheroad #lookingatappalachia #insideapppalachia (at Berea, Kentucky)

Day 3 Feeling trump's twisted take. #100daysinappalachia (at Whitesburg, Kentucky)

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"I don't try to do songs just like B. B. King. It wouldn't never be no me, I'm just mocking B.B.King, or Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf or some of those guys. I don't want to be mocking. Later on, down the through the years to come, I hope somebody be mocking me." -- Leo "Bud" Welch released his first blues album at the age of 81. (I posted him earlier as phone pic, this is dslr. ) #storiesofappalachia #stories #wvumediainno #photojournalism #wvu #appalachia #brucems #brucecounty #mississippi #lookingatappalachia #insideapppalachia #thisisappalachia #thisismississippi #ontheroad #100days100voices #100daysinappalachia #music #mississippiblues #hillcountryblues #portraits (at Bruce, Mississippi)

My phone is filled with 36,775 photos plus 214 videos. Time to delete. I must get my phone under control before I head to Europe in May. I think I might shoot too many versions. This scene from Berea Coffee & Tea is an example, but also a great example of one of the BEST #coffeeshopsinappalachia I have visited so far. Great ambiance, food tea and coffee too. Sometimes a good latte is hard to come by. #appalachiancoffeeshops #berea #bereaky #100daysinappalachia #thisisappalachia #kentucky #appalachiacoffeeshops #appalachia #coffee #tea #delete #cleaningmyphone (at BC&T : Berea Coffee & Tea)

As seen on the hard-hat tour of the Wilkinsburg train station. Today's adventure was with @mattressfactory #factory500 and @wilkinsburgcdc #wilkstation The 1916 Pennsylvania Railroad Station will soon be renovated, more at wilkstation.org. #appalachia #100daysinappalachia #thisisappalachia #lookingatappalachia #wilkinsburg #wilkinsburgpa #mattressfactory (at Wilkinsburg Borough)

Clay County, Kentucky is "The Land of Swinging Bridges" and some of these structures definitely take more nerve to cross than others. This was the tallest I saw (and crossed) . Vanda Rice and Margy Miller were our fabulous tour guides. #stayinclay #insideapppalachia #lookingatappalachia #ontheroad #appalachia #clay #claycounty #claycountyKY #visitky #travelky #100daysinappalachia #100days100voices #swingingbridge #swingingbridges (at Clay County, Kentucky)

This caught my eye too. My West Virginia buddies will have to help with the caption of this thing along Rt 219 near #marlinton Surprise, I was running late to an appointment (though not too late to stop for 30 seconds to make a photo) #wv #travelwv #appalachia #thisisappalachia #lookingatappalachia #ontheroad #100daysinappalachia #wvumediainno #wvu #wvumedia #marlintonwv (at Marlinton, West Virginia)

Just something that caught my eye. #ontheroad for #wvumediainno #100daysinappalachia #100days100voices. #wv #igersofwv #appalachia #thisisappalachia #greenbrier #greenbriercounty #greenbriercountywv #coke #travelwv #travel (at Ronceverte, West Virginia)

I have seen lots of lovely #barnquilts and this one was on a barn that kinda matched the mountains. Everything seemed to be a shade of gray that day, except the quilt. #100daysinappalachia #thisisappalachia #bereaky #berea #kentucky #barnquilt #ontheroad #lookingatappalachia #insideapppalachia #ky #Madisoncounty #mountains #mountain #barns #barn #farmlife #farm (at Berea, Kentucky)

I came back another day to shoot with my "real" camera and the flowers were gone. Proving, of course - shoot it when you see it and I had already used a "real" camera. #412 #pgh #pittsburgh #appalachia #flowers #pa #pennsylvania #thisisappalachia #lookingatappalachia #mexicanwarstreets #myhood #parisofappalachia #steelcity #steelcitygrammers #igersofpgh #igerspgh #pittsburghpa #100daysinappalachia (at Mexican War Streets)

It seems the Dinner Bucket is still closed for March according to my friend Sylvester. #cleaningmyphone #appalachia #thisisappalachia #100days100voices #100daysinappalachia #igersofwv #mcdowellcounty #mcdowellcountywv (at Shupester's the Dinner Bucket)

I liked this tree. #thisisappalachia #appalachia #pa #pennsylvania #100daysinappalachia #westmorelandcountypa #westmorelandcounty #westmoreland (at Unity Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania)

"Environmentalism is a bad word, but we're just trying to clean up the streams" - Stanley Jennings on saving the creeks where he lives that have been dead his entire lifetime. Of course, he and his colleagues are worried about new changes in the regulations when they are already fighting 100-year-old pollution. We have a 360 video of their work, how a line doser works on our site, @100daysinappalachia by @Justin.Hayhurst He made it on the sweet #keymission360 from @NikonUSA @eddieadamsworkshop #thankyou #100daysinappalachia #100days100voices #savethetygart #wvdep #maplerun #wv #thisisappalachia #thisiswhatwedo #westvirginia #amd #environment #lookingatappalachia #portrait #pollution #pollutionfree #water #coal #acidminedrainage #wvrivers

"They will not be made in America, but made in another country. I don't take pride in that at all." Part 2 talking with Jeffery L. Bean who worked making caskets for the Batesville Casket Company. His factory in Mississippi closed, and the wooden caskets are now made in Chihuahua, Mexico. Part of my coverage on #appalachia for @100daysinappalachia for #100days100voices #economy #economics #lookingatappalachia #pride #mississippi #batesville #batesvillems #panolscounty #panola #panolams #thisismississippi #portraits #photojournalism #jobs #jobsearch #insideapppalachia #ms (at Batesville, Mississippi)

"We don't want another non-profit. We want people making profits," -- Sylvester Edwards explaining his philosophy of farming and agribusinesses he's working on in #McDowellCounty, #WestVirginia Raised on the Eastern Band Cherokee Reservation in the Great Smoky Mountains, Edwards moved against the tide of people leaving and moved back to the region recently, specifically McDowell, a county known for its poverty. Edwards was drawn to farming because of his #Mormon faith. I have run into so many lovely and passionate people. All have their own hidden surprises. It is a complicated region. Edwards is one of our profiles for @100daysinappalachia #100days100voices #insideapppalachia #thisisappalachia #appalachia #wv #igersofwv #mcdowellcountywv #lookingatappalachia #farming #mountainlife #wvumedia #wvu #photojournalism #wvumediainno #stories #storiesofappalachia (at McDowell County)