Covered Bridge marks 142 years of flood-resistent community service
By Ophelia Thornton | Shortly before the Doe River reaches its confluence with the Watauga River, it flows under what is arguably Upper ...
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Nov 2611 min read
Celebrating 40 years: ETSU’s Center of Excellence for Appalachian Studies and Services
During the early 1980s, Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander was promoting a plan for increasing the quality of public education in the state...
Nov 264 min read
Book of essays pays homage to Now & Then magazine, Appalachian Studies
By Ophelia Thornton | As East Tennessee State University’s Center for Appalachian Studies and Services celebrates its 40th year, one of ...
Nov 267 min read
Celebrating North Carolina’s Duke of Earls
By Donna Davis | One hundred years ago, a baby was born who was instrumental in putting Shelby, North Carolina, on the map. What Elvis ...
Nov 269 min read
ETSU continues winning, supportive tradition during IBMA World of Bluegrass Conference
By Mark Rutledge | While students and alumni of Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Roots Music Studies at East Tennessee State University were ...
Nov 265 min read
Sticks, Work & Time
By Shara Lange | In 2013, internationally renowned artist Patrick Dougherty came to East Tennessee State University’s campus and worked ...
Nov 268 min read
Lyric Essays by Rose McLarney
Lyric Essays draw on poetic literary devices, including imagery, music, word play, compression, and extended metaphors.
Aug 1217 min read
A short story by Robert Morgan
By Robert Morgan | The police quit looking for me. They gave up and pretended I was no longer hiding on the island. It was about a year ...
Aug 125 min read
Finale with a Flourish
By Donna Davis | Over the river and through the woods is a land of horses, Virginia’s two tallest mountains, and ambivalent cell phone ...
Aug 128 min read
Bluegrass ‘Joy’ is a Summer Camp
By Mark Rutledge | When 15-year-old Jamison Smith arrived at East Tennessee State University’s first ever Bluegrass Summer Camp in July ...
Aug 125 min read
Grandmother’s quilting box opens connection through shared passion
By Sandra Laws | Jackie Paxton Rose never knew her grandmother, but when her mother passed away in 2018, she inherited a box that would ...
Aug 126 min read
Jewish in Appalachia
By P.B. Cooley | Jewish liturgical poetry sung to Appalachian Mountain music may sound like something out of a Christopher Guest film...
Aug 1215 min read
From the Vault: ‘Now & Then’
By Patrick Sloan | The radio was the hearth around which our family and neighbors gathered on those stark, winter nights in the 1950s...
May 2811 min read
African American contributions to the Appalachian bluegrass of Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Buck Graves, and others
By Jack Tottle | History. Does it repeat itself? Sometimes. Kind of. Earlier this year, Texas-born Beyoncé’s country single “Texas Hold...
May 2810 min read
Appalachia’s other company towns
By Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller | The Industrial Revolution led corporations to build towns near their factories, sources...
May 284 min read
I Carry the Mountains with Me Wherever I Go: Remembering Fred Chappell
By Jesse Graves | Imagine for a moment, a boy and his father building an ornate wooden bridge over a backyard creek, conceived as a...
May 2811 min read
Dick Gaughan’s ‘Handful of Earth’: Deep roots in other people’s soil
By Ted Olson | Among the most influential folk musicians living in the U.K. today, Dick Gaughan was born Richard Peter Gaughan in Glasgow...
May 283 min read
Students of traditional Appalachian music spend time with bluegrass royalty
By Mark Rutledge | There is a long history of bluegrass legends stopping by East Tennessee State University to teach, make music with...
May 286 min read
Tennessee Mountain Writers conference celebrates 35 years of sharing creative skills and energy
By Lacy Snapp | “We all drove through gaps to get here,” writer Jim Minick said during the April 4 kickoff reception for the 2024....
Feb 178 min read
Bill Monroe’s bluegrass — Black and white music intertwined
By Jack Tottle | The "Father of Bluegrass Music” often spoke frankly and eloquently about the indispensable role of African American
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