Appalachian Beaver County

• 2002 Census of Agriculture County Profile: Beaver, Pennsylvania
• 2017 Census of Agriculture: Beaver County
• Creating a Culture of Health in Appalachia – Disparities and Bright Spots – Beaver County
• Current Beaver County Stats
• Demographic Diversity and Economic Change in Appalachia (1999)
• Ethnographic Survey Beaver County (Nightingale, 1992)
• Exploring Bright Spots in Appalachian Health: Case Studies Executive Summary
• Report: 2 Pennsylvania counties rank as Appalachian ‘Bright Spots’
• Resident Population in Beaver County, PA
• The Appalachian Region: A Data Overview from the 2016-2020 American Community Survey
• US Census Quick Facts: Beaver County, Pennsylvania
• Beaver County – 1850 Census Farm Data
• Beaver County – 1880 Census Farm Data (10% Sample)

• Appalachian Americans
• Appalachian Regional Commission
• Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)
• Counties of Appalachia
• History is Alive and Well in Beaver County
• History of Beaver County (County Commissioners) 
• Vandalia
• Western Pennsylvania
• Westsylvania
  • Laid Back History: School Edition | Ep 2 Westylvania
• Where is Appalachia?
• Who are the Appalachians?

GENERAL BEAVER COUNTY HISTORICAL INTEREST

• A New Era Begins 1986-Present
• African Americans in Beaver County History
• Beaver County History Online
• Caldwell’s Illustrated, Historical, Centennial Atlas Of Beaver County, Pennsylvania
• Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County Pennsylvania, Vols. 1 & 2 (1914)
• Growth And Decline 1946-1985 in Beaver County
• History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania with Illustrations
• Immigration and Migration Patterns in Beaver County
• Labor Movement and Wagner Act in Beaver County
• Women in Beaver County History
• Who lived here first? A look at Pittsburgh’s Native American history
• Oyler: 18th Century Native Americans In Western PA
• Laid Back History: School Edition | Ep 1 – Native Americans of Western Pennsylvania

IDENTITY (See also “New Voices” in Appalachia Today)

• Appalachian stereotypes
• Black in Appalachia
• The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition
• What is Appalachian Culture?
• What is the Nature of Appalachian Identity?
• Who Slandered The Wonderful Appalachian Mountain People And Why?
• Why do people like bashing Pennsylvania?
• Appalshop Genesis: Appalachians Speaking for Themselves in the 1970s and 80s

FOODWAYS

• Appalachian Cuisine – Original Farm To Table Eating
• Appalachian Food Revolution
• Appalachian foods: Defining generations
• Apples in Appalachia
• Rooted in place and history, Appalachian food culture defies stereotypes
• Top 25 Beaver County Foods You Have to Eat Before You Die
• What Exactly Is Appalachian Cuisine?
• What it Means to Eat “Affrilachian” or Black and Appalachian 
• Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks (A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden legacy of Black Appalachians, through powerful storytelling alongside nearly forty comforting recipes, from the former poet laureate of Kentucky)

FOLKLORE & FOLKWAYS

• Allegheny episodes: folk lore and legends collected in northern and western Pennsylvania (1922)
• American Folklore Society
• Appalachian Ghost Stories in Mountain Culture
• Appalachian Granny Witches
• Folklore (wiki)
• Folklore in Appalachia
• Appalachian Folk Magic: Generations of “Granny Witchcraft” and Spiritual Work

ART & MUSIC

• American Culture Through Music: Voices Across Time
• Appalachian Blues
• Appalachian Dance
• Appalachian Music
• Black at the Roots: A lesson on country music’s lineage
• Garrison Day: Beaver, Pennsylvania’s Celebration of Appalachian Arts
• Global Stories, Local Issues: Storytelling through music – This piece tells a story of Appalachian musical culture through the medium of the bluegrass guitar
• Pittsburgh Music History: Pittsburgh Songs
• Square Dance History Project
• Vivien Richman Sings Folk Songs of West Pennsylvania
• Vivien Richman songs on YouTube

IMAGES

• Flickr group: “Beaver County, Pa”

STORYTELLING & ORAL HISTORY

• Appalshop Archive
• Black Stories Black Voices (Black in Appalachia Initiative)
• Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History
• The Pig Lady Fall Folklore Celebration
• The Past, Present, and Future of a Possibility: Exploring the Legacies of Appalshop Oral History Project
• Story Gathering Project
• The Social Voice Project

• 10 Appalachian English Sayings Translated
• 34 Appalachian Words You Didn’t Know Existed
• A Dictionary of Sociolinguistics (Joan Swann, Ana Deumert,
  Theresa Lillis and Rajend Mesthrie)
• American Anthropological Association
• American Association for Applied Linguistics
• American Varieties – Steel Town Speak 
• American Varieties: Yinzburgh Online
• An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Fifth Edition) (Holmes and Wilson)
• Appalachian English
• Appalachian English (wiki)
• Appalachian English (wikiwand)
• Appalachian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century
• Center for Applied Linguistics
• Defining accent of Appalachia
• Dictionary of American Regional English
• Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE)
• Eight Easy Steps to Speaking Appalachian – WVPB
• Encyclopedia of Appalachia on Language
• Jagoff (wiki)
• Linguistic Geography of Pennsylvania
• Linguistic Society of America
• Linguistics terminology
• Mountain Talk | The Daily Yonder
• Pennsylvania Speech (Michael Adams, Indiana University)
• Sociolinguistics
• Sociolinguistics by Walt Wolfram
• Sociolinguistics: an interview with William Labov
• The Language of Appalachia
• The Legendary Language of the Appalachian “Holler”
• The Legendary Language of the Appalachian “Holler”
• The Steel City Sojourn:  Journies through unique places in Pittsburgh – Pittsburghese
• The Syntax and History of the Appalachian English Dialect
• Western Pennsylvania English (wiki)
• Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: English in North America

• Appalachian Dialect Is Getting Some Respect
• EDITORIAL: Take time to look at Appalachia
• Global Stories, Local Issues: Storytelling through music – This piece tells a story of Appalachian musical culture through the medium of the bluegrass guitar.
• ReImagine Appalachia: Re-Imagine Beaver County
• ReImagining Your Community Series Launch – Beaver County (video)
• Searching for silenced voices in Appalachian music
• The faces and places of Appalachia Crowdsourced project gives a fresh look at the region
• Whitewashing Reality: Diversity in Appalachia
• Looking At National Stories Through An Appalachian Lens
• What is Appalachia? Here’s what people from around the region, including Pittsburgh, have to say
• ‘Hillbilly’ Documentary Successfully Deconstructs The Hillbilly Stereotype
• The Real Meaning of Hillbilly: I left my hometown because I felt alienated from its conservative values. Turns out many in my community had forgotten our progressive roots
• Understanding Appalachian Microaggression from the Perspective of Community College Students in Southern West Virginia

NEW MEDIA & ORGANIZATIONS

• • • 100 Days in Appalachia
    • Allegheny Front
    • Appalachian Voices (See also: The Appalachian Voice)
    • Appalshop
    • expatalachians–an Appalachian journalism project written by those who left–and returned–home
    • Inside Appalachia
    • Looking at Appalachia photo exhibit – Pennsylvania
    • New Sun Rising – Building Vibrant Communities
    • RiverWise – Sustainable Steps Toward a Regional Identity for Beaver County
    • Post Industrial Magazine
    • RiverWise – Sustainable Steps Toward a Regional Identity for Beaver County
    • The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition
    • West Virginia Public Broadcasting
    • WMMT Mountain Community Radio

NEW VOICES

BLACK

• • • Black Appalachia Coalition
    • Black at the Roots: A lesson on country music’s lineage
    • Black Stories Black Voices (Black in Appalachia Initiative)
    • Hidden Black History in Appalachia
    • NAACP and Black Appalachian Coalition Host Appalachia Black Invisibility Event
    • Sounds of Silence: How African Americans, Native Americans, and White Women Found Their Voices in Southern Appalachian Music
    • ‘This is my home’: Black Appalachians find voice in protests
    • Young Black Leaders Steer the Way for Change in Appalachia

LGTBQ

• • • A Queerness Full of Appalachian Grit and Spirit – Zane McNeill discusses Y’all Means All, an anthology of emerging queer voices
    • Campy Country Queers: Juniper Moon Folk Arts magnifies Appalachian voices
    • LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia: A conversation between editors
    • “Well, we’re fabulous and we’re Appalachians, so we’re fabulachians: Country Queers in Central Appalachia”
    • “Y’all Means All”: Redefining Queer Folk in Appalachia

INDIGENOUS

• • • What does it mean to be a Native American tribe? In Ohio, the answer is complicated

    • Native Land Acknowledgement

LABOR

• • • ‘A Union for Appalachian Healthcare Workers’: W.Va. Author’s New Book Recounts History Amid Resurgence of Labor Organizing