For the first time, all 32 years of Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine are available online through East Tennessee State University’s Digital Archives, giving readers unprecedented access to one of the region’s most significant literary and cultural publications. The milestone comes as Appalachian Places: Stories From The Highlands celebrates its fifth anniversary, continuing a 37-year legacy of Appalachian storytelling that began with Now & Then in 1984.

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

Poetry by Robert Morgan, Suzette Clark Bradshaw, Victor Depta, Edwina Pendarvis, Louis Gallo, and Michael McFee