Appalachian Beaver County
References & Resources
Stats & Data
History
Culture
Language
Appalachia Today
Stats & Data
- 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)
History
- 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
- 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
Culture
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?
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
FOLKLORE
- 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
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
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
Language
- 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
Appalachia Today
- 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
LABOR