By Mark Rutledge | It could be said that the title of Artist in Residence for East Tennessee State University’s Bluegrass, Old-Time, and ...

By Ron Roach | Next month, as the Appalachian Studies Association will hold its 47th Annual Conference at Western Carolina University, we...

By Jason Soong  | Dr. Fereshteh Gerayli can speak with authority about the fact that rural communities around the globe face similar ...

By Mark Sarver | In Franklin County, Alabama, near the state’s northwest corner, there is a story of resilience and revival among a ...

By Jack Tottle | As a high school kid in Washington, D.C., during the early 1950s, I fell in love with Appalachia. I’d barely been there...

By Scott Honeycutt | We had been walking up trail for five minutes, when a loud snap and crackle began on the ridge above us. As I looked...

By Appalachian Places staff | Lots of color and expressions of art and culture was on display at The Women Veteran’s Art Exhibit on Aug. 25.

By Terry Roberts | John Ehle and I were friends for almost 40 years. We first met about 1980 when I wrote him a fan letter. I was a young...

Poetry by Jim Minick, Darnell Arnoult, Bart Sides, Kevin LeMaster and Arthur Smith

A conversation with Jim Minick | I first heard the name Jim Minick from the advice of poet Linda Parsons at the 2023 TN Mountain Writers ...

By Jeremy Smith | By all accounts, the concert on Aug. 15, 1947, was a triumph for Mildred Katharine Ellis. After more than three years ...

By Phillip J. Obermiller and Thomas E. Wagner | Migrants into what is now the Appalachian region came first on foot, in canoes, and on ...

By Kevin E. O'Donnell | In December 2021, on the morning of the winter solstice, I drove 50 miles up Ohio State Route 7 following the ...

By Aba Afful | Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you have not seen.” The above quote from American journalist...

By Fred Sauceman | Near closing time, in the kitchen at Nani’s Restaurant, Natasha Arrazcaeta is canning garbanzo beans. Her mother ...

By Lee Bidgood | Toward the end of 2007, while in the Czech Republic for a yearlong stretch of dissertation research with Czech ...

By Skylar Baker-Jordan | Sometime in the mid-1980s, a snowstorm hit East Tennessee, preventing Joy Branham’s husband from returning to ...

By Lacy Snapp | I first met Kari Gunter-Seymour in 2020 the same way that you’d expect during that time: in little rectangular Zoom boxes...

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By Skylar Baker-Jordan and P.B. Cooley | Swiftly and violently did the rivers, creeks and streams swell. As the raging water rose in the ...