By Lee Bidgood | Toward the end of 2007, while in the Czech Republic for a yearlong stretch of dissertation research with Czech ...

By Skylar Baker-Jordan | Sometime in the mid-1980s, a snowstorm hit East Tennessee, preventing Joy Branham’s husband from returning to ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

By Becca Proffitt | East Tennessee State University's Reece Museum and the Black American Studies Program have partnered to develop an ...

By Seth Grindstaff | A number of years ago when I opened my new copy of Jeff Daniel Marion’s collection of poetry...

By Skylar Baker-Jordan | How a state program for high school students has been changing lives since 1985...

By Rebecca Adkins Fletcher | Appalachian Places joins the chorus across Appalachia in saying farewell to a legend. Helen Matthews Lewis ...

By Ted Olson | A small independent label, Rich-R-Tone Records has generally received attention among scholars and serious music fans for ...

UNICOI COUNTY, Tennessee — After taking over a farm in the Tilson Mountain area of Unicoi County in 2007, Ken Murray decided that he...

By Sara Friedl-Putnam | In 1986, Diane Ott Whealy, the co-founder of Seed Savers Exchange (SSE), and her husband, Kent Whealy, bought the...

By Jane MacMorran | A group of Ulster-American scholars participating in the 2022 Ulster-American Heritage Symposium at East Tennessee ...

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 ...

In August 2021 we launched Appalachian Places: Stories from the Highlands. Appalachian Places is a nonprofit publication dedicated to ...

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...

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...

On July 29, 2021, Appalachia lost one of its most beloved and esteemed poets, East Tennessee’s own Jeff Daniel Marion. Read more ...