Apr 7Quilting: A Tradition of Appalachian ResilienceTraci Fields Tackett, 54, and Holly Fields Collins, 102, are two generations of women who are passionate about making quilts. Both born...
Dec 2, 2020Guest Post: Learning About Appalachian StereotypesIn third grade, we had a student teacher that taught historical facts and timelines of Johnson Co. (our home county) and she taught...
Sep 29, 2020Guest Post: Kentucky Is My FateShortly after I moved to South Carolina in 2018, I made a Spotify playlist filled with songs either about Kentucky or by Kentucky...
Aug 28, 2020Guest Post: Split Dogs and Skunk FuneralsMy husband told me about a dog he had when he was a boy. The dog had Beagle ears and body with a Chihuahua head, legs and tail. It yapped...
Aug 27, 2020Guest Post: The JackknifeNo one owned a pocket knife in the mountains of Appalachia; almost every man and boy carried a jackknife. It was a youngster’s rite of...
Aug 25, 2020Guest Post: A Prayer of Sounds and SilenceTonight I sat alone in church listening for His voice A tranquility interrupted by the wailing horn of a northbound coal train winding...
Aug 17, 2020Guest Post: Why I Never Left AppalachiaFrom the editor: Tipper has been writing about all things Appalachian on her blog Blind Pig and the Acorn since 2008 and recently started...
Aug 13, 2020Guest Post: Reconciling My Immigrant Roots and Appalachian UpbringingFrom the editor: This essay was originally published by Krishna on Medium in 2019. Most holidays, I go home to a small town nestled in...
Aug 12, 2020Guest Post: Where I'm FromI am from a big city with country roots. From a father with an 8th grade education and a mother who never worked outside our home. I am...
Aug 4, 2020Guest Post: The Beauty of AppalachiaThere has always been a perplexing quality about Appalachia. Simultaneously, one is told to leave the land, while others never leave. For...
Jul 31, 2020Hillbilly Elegy & Appalachian RepresentationSeated beside the Hillbilly Bear in the Pikeville, KY city park, Dr. Jordan Laney, Postdoctoral Fellow at Virginia Tech, explains why she...
Jul 29, 2020Combatting Stereotypes Through Cultural TraditionsFrom her garden nestled in a holler in Pikeville, KY, Lauren May (creator of the cooking blog Must Love Herbs) discusses how she came...
Jul 28, 2020Showcasing Black Appalachian HistoryFrom the East Tennessee PBS studio in Knoxville, TN, William Isom II (Director of Black in Appalachia) and Dr. Enkeshi El-Amin...