Flan in Appalachia: Finding flavors of the Caribbean in the mountains of Georgia
By Fred Sauceman | Near closing time, in the kitchen at Nani’s Restaurant, Natasha Arrazcaeta is canning garbanzo beans. Her mother ...
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- May 16
- 5 min
Kosodrevina, 2019: Documenting bluegrass on a mountain in Slovakia
By Lee Bidgood | Toward the end of 2007, while in the Czech Republic for a yearlong stretch of dissertation research with Czech ...
- May 16
- 4 min
Community Quilt Days stitch together the past and present
By Skylar Baker-Jordan |
Sometime in the mid-1980s, a snowstorm hit East Tennessee, preventing Joy Branham’s husband from returning to ...
- May 16
- 9 min
A conversation with Kari Gunter-Seymour
By Lacy Snapp | I first met Kari Gunter-Seymour in 2020 the same way that you’d expect during that time: in little rectangular Zoom boxes...
- May 16
- 13 min
Poetry: Kari Gunter-Seymour, Catherine Hamrick, Jessica Cory, Reneé Critcher Lyons, John Thomas York
Welcome back to the poetry corner of Appalachian Places, and if this your first time visiting us, please take a few moments to browse our...
- 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
- 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 ...
- Oct 8, 2022
- 9 min
'We are a proud people, but we also need some help'
By Skylar Baker-Jordan | Tony Calhoun was a precocious child. At just 6 years old, he wanted to check out a book from the local library...
- Oct 8, 2022
- 12 min
National Storytelling Festival Celebrates 50th Staging of 'Storied' Event
By Ted Olson | Appalachia is a storied region. Every place within the region has its own story, and many people who have lived in some...
- Oct 8, 2022
- 17 min
Remembering Jeff Daniel Marion: Poems and Remembrances for Appalachian Places
On July 29, 2021, Appalachia lost one of its most beloved and esteemed poets, East Tennessee’s own Jeff Daniel Marion. Read more ...
- Oct 8, 2022
- 7 min
Mitchell County, N.C., Launches 'Hilloween' Festival
By Gina Phillips | People often speak of Halloween as being a scary time. But rugged mountaineers in the 1830s apparently didn't need...
- Jul 29, 2022
- 9 min
Oral History Project Champions Forgotten Baseball Team
By Mark Rutledge | While Jackie Robinson famously broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947, it was 12 more years before...
- Jul 29, 2022
- 4 min
From The Vault: 'Exploring Rural Roots' with introduction by Roy Andrade
From the Vault: Now and Then 1990, Issue 7, Number 1, "Exploring Rural Roots" by Richard Blaustein, with an introduction by Roy Andrade
- Jul 29, 2022
- 11 min
‘A Partnership that Works’: An Interview with Gayle Manchin, Federal Co-Chair of the ARC
By Ron Roach | In May 2021, Gayle Conelly Manchin became the Thirteenth Federal Co-Chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)...
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