As a tenth generation Appalachian, Ivy Brashear sees J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” as a “really one-sided and simple view of the region.” In an effort to help broaden people’s view of ...

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 ...

A dense green forest surrounds the thin corridors of dark brown earth that make up the Appalachian Trail system. The trees ...

As a 10th-generation Appalachian, Ivy Brashear sees JD Vance's 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" as a "really one-sided and simple view of the region." In an effort to help broaden people;s view of ...

Explore the hidden 158-year-old Hannah Cabin, a preserved log cabin deep within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, ...

Vice Presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) first entered popular culture selling a caricature of Appalachian culture to eager elite consumers on both the political right and left. His 2016 book, ...

Appalachia may be mere miles away from the city of Charlottesville, but it can often feel worlds apart for the people living deep in the mountains and the people living in their eastern foothills. For ...

We revisit host Celeste Headlee's February conversation with former Kentucky Poet-Laureate Crystal Wilkinson. Wilkinson's book "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five ...

There was a time in Appalachia when every ridge and holler was lined with towering chestnut trees and the mountains glowed ...

A hiker found the dangerous treats near the North Trail Loop leading to the George W. Outerbridge shelter in Washington Township, Pennsylvania, authorities said Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer ...