By Ron R. Roach | The small mountain communities of Butler, Tennessee, and Rosia Montana, Romania, are more than 5,000 miles apart, but ...

By Mark Rutledge and Ophelia Thornton | A century-old photo album that traveled from the nation’s eastern mountains to the Mid-West...

By E.J. Swatsell | Throughout history, human existence has been recorded by material culture — the physical objects, spaces, and ...

By Lydia Hamby | In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene’s devastating impact on many Appalachian communities in Western North Carolina and ...

By Geraldine Glodek | Ronan Doyle, born in 1919, was a curious five-year-old packed into a coal-company home with his immigrant ...

Poetry by Matt Wimberley, Melissa Helton, Mary Alice Dixon, Megan Krupa, and Lydia Gwyn