‘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...
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- 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...
- Dec 13, 2021
- 8 min
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..
- Dec 13, 2021
- 5 min
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...
- Dec 13, 2021
- 8 min
‘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...
- Dec 13, 2021
- 2 min
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...
- Dec 13, 2021
- 6 min
From the Vault: 'Now & Then'
A Part and Apart - By Pat Arnow | Originally published in "Now & Then" Volume 3, Issue 1, Winter 1986
- Oct 29, 2021
- 10 min
'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
- Oct 29, 2021
- 10 min
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...
- Oct 29, 2021
- 7 min
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...
- Sep 17, 2021
- 6 min
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...
- Sep 16, 2021
- 6 min
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...
- Sep 15, 2021
- 7 min
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...
- Sep 14, 2021
- 10 min
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...
- Sep 13, 2021
- 6 min
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...
- Sep 12, 2021
- 3 min
Introducing ‘Appalachian Places’
By Ron Roach | Sense of place. This phrase, popularized by cultural geographers, sometimes describes the idea that a particular place can...
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