Get a taste for what’s cooking in Virginia’s Appalachia Appalachian cuisine is a great cultivation of different cultures; so, we travel to Bristol, Abingdon, Cedar Bluff and Castlewood Virginia to get ...

I am writing about the federal court case involving the Ison Ridge logging operation. I’m truly just plain fed up with the playful politics and joking profit-hungry megacompanies that are so willing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hi, I'm Carley, and I'm a proud Appalachian. Appalachia is a very specific and often misunderstood region of the South. And yes, ...

”The Appalachian Spirit,” a 60-card deck that pays tribute to Appalachian life includes a cards “See Rock City” barns, a newt and pepperoni rolls. Provided From nostalgic foods like pepperoni rolls ...

I was born in 1946 and raised in a Black coal mining family at the foot of Black Mountain, Kentucky’s highest peak, in Harlan County. From its summit, during my frequent hikes as a teenager, I could ...

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In the picture, 98-year-old Mae Amburgey sits atop her bed as floodwaters rise on every side, four feet deep in her Letcher County, Ky., home. Her legs are submerged in the cold, muddy water as she ...

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, the 2016 memoir from Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, once again began flying off the shelves after former President Donald ...

We step off the beaten path and into the woods for a deep dive into the world of foraging in Appalachia. We join the NRV Mushroom Club on a foraging walk, chat with Appalachian Sustainable Development ...

This story was originally published by the Lexington Herald-Leader. I was born in 1946 and raised in a Black coal mining family at the foot of Black Mountain, Kentucky’s highest peak, in Harlan County ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I was born in 1946 and raised in a Black coal mining family at the foot of Black Mountain, Kentucky’s highest peak, in Harlan ...