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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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Poetry by Don Johnson, Denton Loving, Thomas Alan Holmes and Sam Barbee

'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 ...

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 ...