Why Is This Blog Going Wild With Page Views, Almost 60,000 In A Month?

I have no idea how or why it has been happening, but my blog, "My Appalachian Life", has gone wild with page views over the last couple of months. Before this streak started, I have never had more than about 35,000 page views in a month, and that only twice. For several years, the blog had averaged about 3,000 page views a month despite the fact that I was posting on it regularly, and often shared blog posts on several Appalachian based groups. This month the page views are approaching 60,000. One of my favorite and most personal posts, "My Appalachian DNA", has had almost 1,000 page views this month. Could it be because Blog Spot has linked it to the feature where you click to be taken to a random blog? Does that feature even require that a blog be linked? Could some other person with a large social media following have shared this blog on some of their postings? Or is it just a random, unexplainable fluke? If you have any idea why this has suddenly started happening, I'd love to hear it. https://myappalachianlife.blogspot.com/2016/12/my-appalachian-dna.html