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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...