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Celebrating Appalachia: ¡Nuestros Ninos y Familias!

By The Reverend “Padre" Timothy Scott Holder and Rebecca Adkins Fletcher | In the summer of 2021,East Tennessee communities saw a reprieve..

Boones Creek Museum and Opry mixes history, culture and music

By "Appalachian Places" staff | On one of Washington County’s oldest farms, the Boones Creek Museum and Opry mixes historic...

‘Can’t Be Put In a Box’

By Leslie Smith | Doc Watson, the legendary Appalachian folk singer whose husky baritone and guitar virtuosity continues to inspire new...

Making Fig Butter with Jeff Banks

By Appalachian Places Staff | If you live in Appalachia and are lucky enough to have fruit trees or berry bushes, making jellies, jams...

From the Vault: 'Now & Then'

A Part and Apart - By Pat Arnow | Originally published in "Now & Then" Volume 3, Issue 1, Winter 1986

'Harlan Renaissance': An Interview with Author William H. Turner

By Appalachian Places staff | The 'Harlan Renaissance' Captures an Overlooked Part of Appalachia’s Past, With Lessons for Today

Women of  the  ‘Powder Plant’: Holston Ordnance  Works during World War II 

By Colin F. Baxter | When I asked Julia Loyd what they were making at Oak Ridge (or “Dogpatch”) during World War II, she...

The Oaks and Us

By Jeff West | Down in McCreary County, Kentucky, in the compact hills of the Cumberland Plateau near the Tennessee border sits a grove...

From Mountainside to Riverside: Appalachia’s Boat Dwellers

By Philip Obermiller and Thomas Wagner | Appalachia has always been a place set apart by mountains and stitched together by rivers...

Building on the Legacy of 'Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine'

By Mark Rutledge | The launch of the online magazine Appalachian Places represents another turn on the long literary road that branches...

The Gamer and The Great Outdoors

By Kevin O'Donnell | On Earth Day 2021, a press release went out from the offices of the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy...

The Centrality of Appalachian Sacred Places (and Alas, Desecrated Places)

By Charles Duncan | In his seminal essay on James Still’s fiction, H.R. Stoneback speaks of the sacralized sense of place in his work...

Appalachian Teaching Project Completes 20 Years

Contributed by ETSU | East Tennessee State University’s Center of Excellence for Appalachian Studies and Services recently completed 20...

Introducing 'Appalachian Places'

By Ron Roach | Sense of place. This phrase, popularized by cultural geographers, sometimes describes the idea that a particular place can...