CULTURE + HERITAGE

theappalachianrete

Quilting: A Tradition of Appalachian Resilience

Traci Fields Tackett, 54, and Holly Fields Collins, 102, are two generations of women who are passionate about making quilts. Both born...

Kara B.

Guest Post: Learning About Appalachian Stereotypes

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

Rachel P.

Guest Post: Kentucky Is My Fate

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

Susanna C.H.

Guest Post: Split Dogs and Skunk Funerals

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...

J. Wayne F.

Guest Post: The Jackknife

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...