Photographs courtesy of Roger Strunk. On July 8, 2023, a small group of people from around Eastern Kentucky gathered at the Mountain Arts...

"Stories Bring Us Together" by Callie Creech. Growing up in Appalachia means growing up being told hundreds of folk tales and stories in...

When you hear the word “Appalachian,” the words “redneck” or “hillbilly”, often follow or are considered synonymous. In most portrayals,...

Produced by Rebekah McAuley and Abigail McDougal. “Within the Mountains" highlights ways that Appalachian people have historically and...

Growing up and living in Appalachia is a unique experience. The culture here is unlike any other when it comes to food, family...

Video produced by Colby Amburgey. Appalachian Food Culture is a video that discusses the importance of food in Appalachia. Our community...

Traci Fields Tackett, 54, and Holly Fields Collins, 102, are two generations of women who are passionate about making quilts. Both born...

In third grade, we had a student teacher that taught historical facts and timelines of Johnson Co. (our home county) and she taught...

Shortly after I moved to South Carolina in 2018, I made a Spotify playlist filled with songs either about Kentucky or by Kentucky...

My husband told me about a dog he had when he was a boy. The dog had Beagle ears and body with a Chihuahua head, legs and tail. It yapped...

No one owned a pocket knife in the mountains of Appalachia; almost every man and boy carried a jackknife. It was a youngster’s rite of...

Tonight I sat alone in church listening for His voice A tranquility interrupted by the wailing horn of a northbound coal train winding...

From the editor: Tipper has been writing about all things Appalachian on her blog Blind Pig and the Acorn since 2008 and recently started...

From the editor: This essay was originally published by Krishna on Medium in 2019. Most holidays, I go home to a small town nestled in...

I am from a big city with country roots. From a father with an 8th grade education and a mother who never worked outside our home. I am...

There has always been a perplexing quality about Appalachia. Simultaneously, one is told to leave the land, while others never leave. For...

Seated beside the Hillbilly Bear in the Pikeville, KY city park, Dr. Jordan Laney, Postdoctoral Fellow at Virginia Tech, explains why she...

From her garden nestled in a holler in Pikeville, KY, Lauren May (creator of the cooking blog Must Love Herbs) discusses how she came...

From the East Tennessee PBS studio in Knoxville, TN, William Isom II (Director of Black in Appalachia) and Dr. Enkeshi El-Amin...