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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, 20235 min read


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, 20234 min read


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, 20239 min read


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...
May 16, 202313 min read


'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, 20233 min read


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, 20237 min read


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, 20236 min read


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, 20232 min read


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...
Feb 28, 20235 min read


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...
Dec 20, 20225 min read


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, 20228 min read


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, 20227 min read


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, 20222 min read


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, 20225 min read


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, 20224 min read


'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, 202210 min read


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 ...
Nov 21, 20222 min read


'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, 20229 min read


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, 202212 min read


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, 202217 min read
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