Review: Jesse Donaldson on Foxfire’s Appalachia

Revisiting our post on the political uses of nostalgia

Stacy Kranitz, Letart, West Virginia, 2015. From As it was Give(n) to Me, a ten-year archive of collected images, text, and objects that traces exploration and extraction in central Appalachia, published in book form by Twin Palms Publisher. Earlier this year Stacy Kranitz collaborated with ProPublica on a photographic essay on how Tennessee’s abortion …