rural – Snake & Tree

June 2, 2018

New Post for 100 Days in Appalachia

Click here to read my post about the proposed budget cuts to adult education programming and why that sets a terrifying precedent for the next grant renewal cycles.

March 5, 2018May 17, 2018

Still on Subsistence: Redneck Survival and The Walking Dead

Crossbows, accents, and bad bitches. The Walking Dead is the white trash Game of Thrones.

I’m Rachel, a jaded twenty-something English grad student looking to tell some stories. Currently based in Knoxville, Tennessee, born and bred in rural Alabama. Here you’ll find liberal political tirades, stories, book reviews, and folklore focused in on these lower Southeastern thirteen states.

The title “Snake and Tree” comes from the Alabama proverb that if you hang a dead snake in a tree it’ll bring rain. These stories are the snake. The rain is making peace with this broke South.