High in the misty hills of Appalachia, where old forests stretch for miles and stories travel easily from one porch to ...

What is Appalachia without biscuits & cornbread?! We talk with a historian & explore restaurants. What is Appalachia without some biscuits and cornbread?! We talk with historian and expert, Leni ...

Retried EKU professor Jacqueline Jane Hamilton launched a non-profit call Why We Write, and helped compile the poems for 'A ...

In this Oct. 16, 2014 photo, fog hovers over a mountaintop as a cut out of a coal miner stands at a memorial to local miners killed on the job in Cumberland, Ky. For over a century, life in Central ...

We dive into the rich sounds of old-time music in Appalachia. We dive into the rich sounds of old-time music in Appalachia with a visit to the Floyd Country Store, a cherished hub for Virginia’s ...

In Appalachia, where overdose deaths remain high, author Barbara Kingsolver is turning fiction into action, using her Pulitzer Prize royalties from "Demon Copperhead" to open a recovery home for women ...

This light was especially symbolic at Christmas, when settlers in frontier Appalachia — many of them Scot-Irish — faced hard ...

Recent catastrophic floods in Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia—driven by heavy rainfall, mountainous terrain, and aging infrastructure—have revealed that many areas in Appalachia are at serious ...

LEWISBURG — Carnegie Hall invites the community to a vibrant evening of discovery and celebration with “Celebrating Latin American Culture in Appalachia”, taking place Friday, Nov. 21, at 6 p.m. This ...