by ashevillewitch | Mar 28, 2015
Came into Rainelle from Beckley about noon and have settled into a pretty b&b. We went into Lewisburg with our hosts and had a good lunch and a walk around town. We settled in for the evening with a livingroomful of people, with a good pie and tales. If you are...
by ashevillewitch | Mar 24, 2015
This trip to West Virginia is opening up all sorts of thoughts in my head. I posted this over on Facebook a few minutes ago– Such dreams. I woke feeling I’d worked the night shift. Preparing for this trip and doing all the usual lists. But...
by ashevillewitch | Mar 23, 2015
I have it in my head to go there, to see where the last great Appalachian uprising (until the water debacle last year) happened. It didn’t end well, not really. It may be the only place in the US where the government dropped bombs on its own (white) people....
by ashevillewitch | Mar 23, 2015
On Thursday, Star and I are leaving town and heading to West Virginia. We’re meeting up with Granny Kate and Mark Dooley and they’ve organized a thing on Saturday with local women who have been asked to bring stories and old-timey ways to share....
by ashevillewitch | Mar 19, 2015
The Alewives is a closed group of Witches who meet weekly to learn new things and dream a new world. We met last night and immediately started a fire in the brazier, dragging chairs and kindling into a circle around it. We spoke of the work to come, the weather, our...