

- 2 days ago
- 10 min
The 1950s: Appalachia invades the nation’s capital — peacefully
By Jack Tottle | As a high school kid in Washington, D.C., during the early 1950s, I fell in love with Appalachia. I’d barely been there...


- 2 days ago
- 15 min
Lilley Cornett Woods: The Hill Country’s legacy
By Scott Honeycutt | We had been walking up trail for five minutes, when a loud snap and crackle began on the ridge above us. As I looked...


- 2 days ago
- 1 min
Experience The Warrior’s Canvas & Women Veteran’s Art Exhibit
By Appalachian Places staff | Lots of color and expressions of art and culture was on display at The Women Veteran’s Art Exhibit on Aug. 25.


- 2 days ago
- 6 min
‘This one knocks the rag off the bush’
By Terry Roberts | John Ehle and I were friends for almost 40 years. We first met about 1980 when I wrote him a fan letter. I was a young...


- 2 days ago
- 9 min
Poetry by Jim Minick, Darnell Arnoult, Bart Sides, Kevin LeMaster and Arthur Smith
Poetry by Jim Minick, Darnell Arnoult, Bart Sides, Kevin LeMaster and Arthur Smith


- Nov 10
- 6 min
A conversation with Jim Minick
A conversation with Jim Minick | I first heard the name Jim Minick from the advice of poet Linda Parsons at the 2023 TN Mountain Writers ...


- 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 ...