Mason Adams
Freelance Writer at Freelance
Independent mountain journalism // Co-host @InAppalachia // Formerly: goats, roller derby, newspapers, condors // Holler at me: mason.j.adams@gmail
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1 week ago |
wvpublic.org | Mason Adams
This conversation originally aired in the May 25, 2025 episode of Inside Appalachia. The book, titled This Book is Free and Yours to Keep, won the 2024 Weatherford Award for nonfiction. It consists largely of letters from incarcerated people across the region who have participated with the Appalachian Prison Book Project. Ellen Skirvin is one of the book’s editors and spoke with Inside Appalachia host Mason Adams about the Appalachian Prison Book Project — and how it became a book itself.
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2 weeks ago |
wvpublic.org | Mason Adams
This conversation originally aired in the May 18, 2025 episode of Inside Appalachia. In the years of Reconstruction following the American Civil War, a group of formerly enslaved people purchased land and formed a Black communal society in western North Carolina. “The Kingdom of the Happy Land” was founded in the summer of 1873 by freed people escaping violence in South Carolina. A new novel tells a story set in the kingdom, but in the past and in the present day. It’s titled, Happy Land.
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1 month ago |
wvpublic.org | Mason Adams
This conversation originally aired on the May 4, 2025 episode of Inside Appalachia. Inmates and their families are complaining about poor conditions and treatment at a supermax prison in Appalachian Virginia. In Virginia, two high-security, supermax prisons are located in coal country: Wallens Ridge State Prison, near Big Stone Gap, and Red Onion, near the town of Pound.
Journalist Calls On Congress To Be Better Friends Of Coal Miners - West Virginia Public Broadcasting
1 month ago |
wvpublic.org | Mason Adams
This conversation originally aired in the April 27, 2025 episode of Inside Appalachia. Since taking office, President Donald Trump has slashed thousands of federal jobs and used executive orders to shake up federal regulation of energy production — including coal. Leann Ray is editor-in-chief of West Virginia Watch, a nonprofit outlet that covers news in the state. She recently published an op-ed that wraps in several of these federal actions regarding coal.
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1 month ago |
wvpublic.org | Mason Adams
This interview originally aired in the April 13, 2025 episode of Inside Appalachia. The December 2008 coal ash spill at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant was the largest industrial spill in United States history — and it marked just the start of a protracted saga that played out for years afterward. The coal ash spill and the labor justice fight that ensued are the subject of a recent book.
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Stand-alone web story w/ transcript + audio here: https://t.co/dos6t98MQF
APBP volunteer Ellen Skirvin spoke with Inside Appalachia (@wvpublic) about our mission, the power of a dictionary, and our new book, "This Book Is Free and Yours to Keep." 📖 🎧 Listen to the full episode anytime: https://t.co/ofCLPhmMLx
RT @InAppalachia: This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, the Appalachian Prison Book Project 📚 has been sending books to incarcerated people for n…
> @charlottewords has been reporting on allegations of poor treatment & conditions at Red Onion State Prison in Wise Co, Virginia. Woods spoke with me for @InAppalachia https://t.co/zdWKyzvXwz https://t.co/goiZdMX2Kj