As the United States marks its 250th anniversary in 2026, the nation looks back not only to the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, but to the wider frontier story that helped make …

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APPALACHIA — Residents across the Appalachian region are facing an unprecedented energy affordability crisis as of March 2026. Household electricity bills have surged to record highs due to a combi…

Appalachia stands today as a living mosaic of peoples, traditions, languages, faiths, and foods. The mountains, valleys, hollers, rivers, and towns reflect centuries of human movement, courage, sur…

A Poem of Waking

The Path Toward Healing and Hope

When I sat down to watch Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I did not know exactly what to expect. I had already seen reactions online. Praise, anger, confusion, certainty. All of it swirling together. I w…

Homelessness in Appalachia has reached a visible and painful peak during 2024 and 2025. Communities across the mountains and valleys face a sharp rise in people living without stable housing, with …

Beautiful and Brutal Things

This story reaches beyond Appalachia and into the heart of a country searching for calm during an era shaped by sharp division. Along highways, through small towns, and across city streets, Venerab…

A safe roof offers warmth during harsh winters, stability for families raising children, and dignity for elders who spent decades working in mines, mills, farms, and service jobs. For many communit…

What connects Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Mukesh Ambani reaches far beyond their billionaire status. Each controls enormous stretches of land, including farmland, forests, and timber holdings that …

Across the mountains and every winding holler of Appalachia, the turning of the New Year has long carried deep meaning. The final hours of December and the first sunrise of January stand as a cross…

Halloween in the mountains had a feeling all its own. The air turned sharp with the smell of wood smoke, and leaves crunched under our feet like dry cornflakes. The hills of Marshall, North Carolin…

Appalachia carries a long running legacy of extraction. Coal seams, timber stands, gas deposits and fertile valleys attracted waves of investment across two centuries. Ownership patterns establishe…

The world mocked the hillbilly until the hillbilly vanished. What replaced him smiled on camera, quoted Faulkner, wore vintage denim, and told stories that sold. The accent softened. The hands came…

Drive through the small towns of eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia or any part of Appalachia and the first thing that stands out is not the poverty or the abandoned factories. It is the chur…

In the foggy hollers and ridges of the Appalachian Mountains, folklore lingers like smoke from an old woodstove. Stories echo through hollows, warnings are whispered along front porches, and tradit…

In the cold, rocky streams of the Appalachian Mountains lives one of the most mysterious and ancient creatures in North America: the hellbender salamander. Few people have ever seen one in the wild…

Cancer continues to represent one of the greatest health challenges in the United States, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives each year despite advances in medical technology and treatment. Whi…

America feels like a shadow of its former self. The country I once knew, where neighbors cared for neighbors and communities lifted each other up, feels fractured. Anger spreads across the nation, …

On February 9, 1950, in the Appalachian city of Wheeling, West Virginia, Joseph McCarthy delivered a speech that changed the direction of American politics. At the time, he was a relatively unknown…

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When J.D. Vance first published Hillbilly Elegy in 2016, the book was quickly embraced as a cultural touchstone, an explanation, at least in the eyes of many coastal journalists, for the rise of wo…

Almost a year has passed since Hurricane Helene tore through the southeastern United States in September 2024, leaving widespread destruction across multiple states and particularly devastating the…

For generations, the Appalachian region has been portrayed as a place apart from the rest of the United States, an often-forgotten landscape of mountains, coal mines, tight-knit communities, and st…

In 2024, according to research from the Energy Justice Lab at Indiana University, Dominion Energy disconnected electricity service from a staggering 339,000 households across Virginia for nonpaymen…

Seven Sacred Steps to Sublime Dissolution

The moment after one field, before the next

From stolen childhood to literary triumph the true story behind Wheatley’s rise from slavery to the heights of American letters

A Wednesday Evening Confession

the moment before everything begins again

Come! Let us walk barefoot through the dew.

How a Nation Built on Freedom Silenced Thousands Through Eugenics

While calling for a national ban on same-sex unions, the SBC still harbors abusers in its pulpits and refuses to fully confront its history of sexual abuse.

What They Tried to Burn Down

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Where the weary find their wings

A Story of Family, Moonshine, and the Unbreakable Spirit of a Small Mountain Town

Nearly six months after Hurricane Helene’s catastrophic path through western North Carolina and East Tennessee, not a single home has been officially rebuilt in the hardest-hit areas, highlig…

Area author Tim Carmichael has published a new book, entitled "The Magic of the Mountains: Appalachian Granny Witches and Their Healing Secrets."

St. Patrick’s Day in Appalachia: A Celebration of Scots-Irish Heritage In the heart of Appalachia, St. Patrick’s Day is more than a global celebration of Irish culture—it’s a deeply personal …

A native of Ashe County, North Carolina, born in 1916, Ola Belle Reed grew into one of the most authentic voices in Appalachian folk music. While she may not have achieved mainstream fame, Reed&#82…

The mountains stand, their silence deep,As winter’s frost begins to sleep.Redbuds burst in fiery hue,A purple-pink to light the view. Through last year’s leaves, the trillium rise,While bloodroot l…

In the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, when winter finally loosens its grip and spring emerges from the thawing ground, a bounty appears on the forest floor—a gift from the land that once susta…

Across Appalachia, once-vast stretches of farmland are vanishing, replaced by rows of houses and neatly paved streets. The rolling pastures that defined East Tennessee’s landscape for generations a…

In the early 1960s, Knoxville was a city trying to find its footing. The country was changing, and so was the town. A group of residents had an idea: why not create something that would bring peopl…

The second Trump presidency is barely two months old, but Americans are already feeling the squeeze. From the rustbelt to Silicon Valley…