By Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller | While JD Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy, is a heartbeat from the presidency it seems appropriate to consider the Appalachian presidents. There have been four born in what today is known as the federal Appalachian Region: James Buchanan, Ulysses S. Grant, William McKinley, and Joseph R. Biden.

Poetry by Doug Van Gundy, Amy Le Ann Richardson, Susanna Skelton, Evelyn Bales, and Matthew Gilbert

By Ron Roach | Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and Magura in the Piatra Craiului Mountains of Romania may seem worlds apart. Yet, these two mountain communities share similar landscapes, histories, stories of preservation and ...