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...
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- 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...
- 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...
- May 16
- 7 min
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 ...
- 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...
- Feb 28
- 3 min
'When the Water Goes Down'
By Skylar Baker-Jordan and P.B. Cooley | Swiftly and violently did the rivers, creeks and streams swell. As the raging water rose in the ...
- Feb 28
- 7 min
Flood alters Hindman Settlement School's ‘safe bubble’ experience
By Amy Richardson | When I think about the Hindman Settlement School, I get the same feeling I always had going to visit my grandmother’s...
- Feb 28
- 6 min
Slow recovery threatens hope in Eastern Kentucky
By Courtney Rhoades Mullins | The call came in at 3:30 a.m. on July 28 from Nate, my fiancé. “Court, there is water everywhere,” he said...
- Feb 28
- 2 min
Rappalachian Soundbox: Cultural identity, soulful effects & fresh connections
By Becca Proffitt | East Tennessee State University's Reece Museum and the Black American Studies Program have partnered to develop an ...
- Feb 28
- 5 min
A friendship rooted in shared passions continues to bloom in Appalachia
By Seth Grindstaff | A number of years ago when I opened my new copy of Jeff Daniel Marion’s collection of poetry...
- 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...
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