By Jane Woodside | Ivan White believes in work—hard, physical labor, day in and day out. What the Tennessee farmer does not believe in is change. On a fine early spring day, a visitor is likely to find 77-year-old White, having easily climbed the steep slope of the 2,000-foot mountain behind his home, readying horse and plow for planting one of his hayfields. White lives much the same self-reliant life as his ancestors did, farming 80 mountainous acres without the aid of any

By Patrick Sloan | The radio was the hearth around which our family and neighbors gathered on those stark, winter nights in the 1950s...

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

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