- Aug 7
- 8 min
A performance of impossibilities
By Jeremy Smith | By all accounts, the concert on Aug. 15, 1947, was a triumph for Mildred Katharine Ellis. After more than three years ...
- Aug 7
- 8 min
Appalachian rails: Region’s trains historically defined by passengers
By Phillip J. Obermiller and Thomas E. Wagner | Migrants into what is now the Appalachian region came first on foot, in canoes, and on ...
- Aug 7
- 21 min
Dysart Woods
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 ...
- Aug 7
- 4 min
Different scenery, same beauty: My Ghana-Appalachia mountain experience
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...
- Aug 7
- 9 min
Poetry by Maurice Manning, KB Ballentine, Alan May, Sharon Ackerman
High summer has arrived in the mountains and foothills of East Tennessee, and we embrace the heat, Dear Reader, with poems that refresh ...