'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 ...
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- 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)...
- Jul 29, 2022
- 2 min
Upper East Tennessee Fiddler’s Convention Celebrates Old-Time Style, Traditions
By Appalachian Places Staff | Started in 2017, the Upper East Tennessee Fiddler’s Convention celebrates the early old-time musicians...
- Jul 29, 2022
- 8 min
Poetry by Micah Daniel McCrotty, Linda Parsons, and Rita Sims Quillen
Poetry by Micah Daniel McCrotty, Linda Parsons, and Rita Quillen
- Apr 5, 2022
- 7 min
bell hooks Lives On
By Beth Feagan | In bell hooks’ last days, a stream of people took turns sitting with her. Her sisters organized the schedule of hospice...
- Apr 5, 2022
- 6 min
Emma Bell Miles: A Place of her Own
By Grace Toney Edwards | These words were likely penned by Emma Bell Miles as she languished in the urban recesses of St. Louis, where...
- Apr 5, 2022
- 1 min
Celebrating Women of Appalachia
By Sandy Laws | Women of Appalachia are unsung trailblazers whose defining characteristics are strength, stamina and stability. They are...
- Apr 5, 2022
- 6 min
Nicely Done: Continuing the Work and Mission of Sammie L. Nicely
By Rebecca Proffitt | In 2020, 50 works from Sammie L. Nicely’s personal collection were bequeathed to the Reece Museum at East Tennessee...
- Apr 5, 2022
- 8 min
Poetry by Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, Susan O’Dell Underwood, and Marianne Worthington
Poetry by Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, Susan O’Dell Underwood, and Marianne Worthington
- Feb 15, 2022
- 3 min
Fred Chappell
February 15, 2022: Fred Chappell set of 6 poems: La Vergogna; Adagio, Pizzicato; Diminuendo lento; "Give Us This Day"; Intervals; Imprimatur
- Feb 15, 2022
- 7 min
‘The American Chestnut’: An Interview with Author Donald Edward Davis
By Appalachian Places Staff | Dr. Donald Edward Davis is a preeminent environmental historian, independent scholar, former Fulbright...
- Feb 15, 2022
- 9 min
NASCAR’s ‘Last American Hero' was an Appalachian hero first
By Kent Benfield | Bowman Gray Stadium, a quarter-mile, flat and paved racetrack and football field in my hometown of Winston-Salem, was...
- Jan 17, 2022
- 7 min
Peck’s Addition: The Intentional Destruction of an Urban Appalachian Neighborhood
By Phillip J. Obermiller | Located in Hamilton, Ohio, Peck’s Addition was a port-of-entry neighborhood for Appalachian migrants...
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