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 ...

By Gina Phillips | People often speak of Halloween as being a scary time. But rugged mountaineers in the 1830s apparently didn't need...

By Mark Rutledge | While Jackie Robinson famously broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947, it was 12 more years before...

From the Vault: Now and Then 1990, Issue 7, Number 1, "Exploring Rural Roots" by Richard Blaustein, with an introduction by Roy Andrade

By Ron Roach | In May 2021, Gayle Conelly Manchin became the Thirteenth Federal Co-Chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)...

By Appalachian Places Staff | Started in 2017, the Upper East Tennessee Fiddler’s Convention celebrates the early old-time musicians...

Poetry by Micah Daniel McCrotty, Linda Parsons, and Rita Quillen

By Beth Feagan | In bell hooks’ last days, a stream of people took turns sitting with her. Her sisters organized the schedule of hospice...

By Grace Toney Edwards | These words were likely penned by Emma Bell Miles as she languished in the urban recesses of St. Louis, where...

By Sandy Laws | Women of Appalachia are unsung trailblazers whose defining characteristics are strength, stamina and stability. They are...

By Rebecca Proffitt | In 2020, 50 works from Sammie L. Nicely’s personal collection were bequeathed to the Reece Museum at East Tennessee...

Poetry by Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, Susan O’Dell Underwood, and Marianne Worthington

February 15, 2022: Fred Chappell set of 6 poems: La Vergogna; Adagio, Pizzicato; Diminuendo lento; "Give Us This Day"; Intervals; Imprimatur

By Appalachian Places Staff | Dr. Donald Edward Davis is a preeminent environmental historian, independent scholar, former Fulbright...

By Kent Benfield | Bowman Gray Stadium, a quarter-mile, flat and paved racetrack and football field in my hometown of Winston-Salem, was...

By Phillip J. Obermiller | Located in Hamilton, Ohio, Peck’s Addition was a port-of-entry neighborhood for Appalachian migrants...

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