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Elizabeth Moomaw in Fall 2018 VT Intro to Appalachian Studies

Dec 4, 2018

Highland County, VA: A Food Desert

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The research being conducted in this paper is how being located in a food desert affects obesity rates on local residents. I focused on the food desert of Highland County, VA and the effects of living in a food desert on…

Want to noodle?

Catfish noodling has been around for hundreds of years in Appalachia. It is the practice of catching catfish, mainly flathead catfish, with using nothing other than your bare hands and backwoods knowledge. Many people carry out this practice, however, in many counties it is outlawed because it is…