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The 1950s: Appalachia invades the nation’s capital — peacefully

By Jack Tottle | As a high school kid in Washington, D.C., during the early 1950s, I fell in love with Appalachia. I’d barely been there...

Lilley Cornett Woods: The Hill Country’s legacy

By Scott Honeycutt | We had been walking up trail for five minutes, when a loud snap and crackle began on the ridge above us. As I looked...

Experience The Warrior’s Canvas & Women Veteran’s Art Exhibit

By Appalachian Places staff | Lots of color and expressions of art and culture was on display at The Women Veteran’s Art Exhibit on Aug. 25.

‘This one knocks the rag off the bush’

By Terry Roberts | John Ehle and I were friends for almost 40 years. We first met about 1980 when I wrote him a fan letter. I was a young...

Poetry by Jim Minick, Darnell Arnoult, Bart Sides, Kevin LeMaster and Arthur Smith

A conversation with Jim Minick

A conversation with Jim Minick | I first heard the name Jim Minick from the advice of poet Linda Parsons at the 2023 TN Mountain Writers ...

A performance of impossibilities

By Jeremy Smith | By all accounts, the concert on Aug. 15, 1947, was a triumph for Mildred Katharine Ellis. After more than three years ...

Appalachian rails: Region’s trains historically defined by passengers

By Phillip J. Obermiller and Thomas E. Wagner | Migrants into what is now the Appalachian region came first on foot, in canoes, and on ...

Dysart Woods

By Kevin E. O'Donnell | In December 2021, on the morning of the winter solstice, I drove 50 miles up Ohio State Route 7 following the ...

Different scenery, same beauty: My Ghana-Appalachia mountain experience

By Aba Afful | Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you have not seen.” The above quote from American journalist...

Poetry by Maurice Manning, KB Ballentine, Alan May, Sharon Ackerman

High summer has arrived in the mountains and foothills of East Tennessee, and we embrace the heat, Dear Reader, with poems that refresh ...