- Dec 20, 2022
- 5 min
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, 2022
- 8 min
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, 2022
- 7 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 5 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 7 min
Poetry by Don Johnson, Denton Loving, Thomas Alan Holmes and Sam Barbee
Poetry by Don Johnson, Denton Loving, Thomas Alan Holmes and Sam Barbee
- Nov 21, 2022
- 10 min
'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, 2022
- 2 min
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 ...