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Feb 28, 20237 min read

Flood alters Hindman Settlement School's ‘safe bubble’ experience

By Amy Richardson | When I think about the Hindman Settlement School, I get the same feeling I always had going to visit my grandmother’s...

Feb 28, 20236 min read

Slow recovery threatens hope in Eastern Kentucky

By Courtney Rhoades Mullins | The call came in at 3:30 a.m. on July 28 from Nate, my fiancé. “Court, there is water everywhere,” he said...

Feb 28, 20232 min read

Rappalachian Soundbox: Cultural identity, soulful effects & fresh connections

By Becca Proffitt | East Tennessee State University's Reece Museum and the Black American Studies Program have partnered to develop an ...

Feb 28, 20235 min read

A friendship rooted in shared passions continues to bloom in Appalachia

By Seth Grindstaff | A number of years ago when I opened my new copy of Jeff Daniel Marion’s collection of poetry...

Dec 20, 20225 min read

Governor's School gets students out of the classroom and into Tennessee's great outdoors

By Skylar Baker-Jordan | How a state program for high school students has been changing lives since 1985...

Nov 21, 20228 min read

Helen Matthews Lewis: Active remembrance

By Rebecca Adkins Fletcher | Appalachian Places joins the chorus across Appalachia in saying farewell to a legend. Helen Matthews Lewis ...

Nov 21, 20227 min read

A pioneering ‘bluegrass label’: The achievement of James Hobart Stanton and Rich-R-Tone Records

By Ted Olson | A small independent label, Rich-R-Tone Records has generally received attention among scholars and serious music fans for ...

Nov 21, 20222 min read

Sorghum Festival has sweet spot for Appalachian heritage

UNICOI COUNTY, Tennessee — After taking over a farm in the Tilson Mountain area of Unicoi County in 2007, Ken Murray decided that he...

Nov 21, 20225 min read

Seed Savers Exchange Stewards Heirloom Appalachian Varieties at Heritage Farm in Iowa

By Sara Friedl-Putnam | In 1986, Diane Ott Whealy, the co-founder of Seed Savers Exchange (SSE), and her husband, Kent Whealy, bought the...

Nov 21, 20224 min read

Ulster-American Heritage Symposium Explores ‘Transatlantic Transitions’

By Jane MacMorran | A group of Ulster-American scholars participating in the 2022 Ulster-American Heritage Symposium at East Tennessee ...

Nov 21, 202210 min read

'A Wee Bit of the Irish': My Time With Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney

By Don Johnson | When I learned that Seamus Heaney was going to read at Bridgewater State College at the end of the spring semester in ...

Nov 21, 20222 min read

A Look Back at the First Year of 'Appalachian Places'

In August 2021 we launched Appalachian Places: Stories from the Highlands. Appalachian Places is a nonprofit publication dedicated to ...

Oct 8, 20229 min read

'We are a proud people, but we also need some help'

By Skylar Baker-Jordan | Tony Calhoun was a precocious child. At just 6 years old, he wanted to check out a book from the local library...

Oct 8, 202212 min read

National Storytelling Festival Celebrates 50th Staging of 'Storied' Event

By Ted Olson | Appalachia is a storied region. Every place within the region has its own story, and many people who have lived in some...

Oct 8, 202217 min read

Remembering Jeff Daniel Marion: Poems and Remembrances for Appalachian Places

On July 29, 2021, Appalachia lost one of its most beloved and esteemed poets, East Tennessee’s own Jeff Daniel Marion. Read more ...

Oct 8, 20227 min read

Mitchell County, N.C., Launches 'Hilloween' Festival

By Gina Phillips | People often speak of Halloween as being a scary time. But rugged mountaineers in the 1830s apparently didn't need...

Jul 29, 20229 min read

Oral History Project Champions Forgotten Baseball Team

By Mark Rutledge | While Jackie Robinson famously broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947, it was 12 more years before...

Jul 29, 20224 min read

From The Vault: 'Exploring Rural Roots' with introduction by Roy Andrade

From the Vault: Now and Then 1990, Issue 7, Number 1, "Exploring Rural Roots" by Richard Blaustein, with an introduction by Roy Andrade

Jul 29, 202211 min read

‘A Partnership that Works’: An Interview with Gayle Manchin, Federal Co-Chair of the ARC

By Ron Roach | In May 2021, Gayle Conelly Manchin became the Thirteenth Federal Co-Chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)...

Jul 29, 20222 min read

Upper East Tennessee Fiddler’s Convention Celebrates Old-Time Style, Traditions

By Appalachian Places Staff | Started in 2017, the Upper East Tennessee Fiddler’s Convention celebrates the early old-time musicians...

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