In third grade, we had a student teacher that taught historical facts and timelines of Johnson Co. (our home county) and she taught...

Note: This essay is an excerpt from a small booklet about the life story of Frankie Sue Best, complied by Steward Caffey and Masoud...

Shortly after I moved to South Carolina in 2018, I made a Spotify playlist filled with songs either about Kentucky or by Kentucky...

Nathan Hall has always had a connection to his home in Eastern Kentucky, and now he's working to create innovative opportunities for the...

Although now incorporated into the Pikeville City Limits and with access to city water, sewage, and other public amenities, in 1955,...

Growing up on Island Creek in Pikeville, KY, my sister and I had the best childhood ever. No, seriously, it was almost magical. For one,...

My 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...

No 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...

Anyone who lived in Pike County in 1957 can tell you a story about the great flood of that year. We lived just a few miles north of town,...

Tonight I sat alone in church listening for His voice A tranquility interrupted by the wailing horn of a northbound coal train winding...

From the editor: Tipper has been writing about all things Appalachian on her blog Blind Pig and the Acorn since 2008 and recently started...

From the editor: This essay was originally published by Krishna on Medium in 2019. Most holidays, I go home to a small town nestled in...

I 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...

A true story of my mom, my grandparents and a Christmas that would always be remembered. My mother, Louise King Kretzer was born in 1928....

[NOTE: Halleck and Jesse Fisher Williams had seven children, including four boys. The Williams boys – Eugene, Tommy, Charles, and Paul –...

Smart and educated are not exactly the first words that come to mind when picturing women from Appalachia. Unfortunately, in most media...

There has always been a perplexing quality about Appalachia. Simultaneously, one is told to leave the land, while others never leave. For...

My husband and I headed out to pick up a pizza on a rainy Saturday evening. Traveling down Frederica Street in Owensboro, Kentucky, the...