The sights and sounds of traditional Appalachian arts will take center stage at the Valle Country Fair on Saturday, October ...

The Pulitzer Prize winner on reclaiming rural stories, and why art and music are vital to human survival.

For music lovers worldwide, the biggest dose of West Virginia culture comes in the form of the weekly public radio show ...

Generations ago, deep in the southern Appalachian Mountains, parent and child sat knee to knee, passing down stories of love and loss, murder and violence, heartbreak and betrayal, community and ...

Creatures said to roam the woods and haunt the night will be the subject of the next “SnackChat” at Lindsey Wilson University ...

It’s fall festival season in Kentucky, a time when each of our 120 counties has its time to shine, and small town streets are lined with tents, crafts, local food, and music. Each place has its own ...

Explore the traditions of Appalachian music with the people keeping the sounds alive. Music runs deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains. We explore the traditions of bluegrass, old-time and folk music ...

Western Carolina University's Mountain Heritage Days promotes the traditions of Appalachia through indigenous perceptions of ...

My connection to Appalachia didn’t begin when I became a community development professional; it began generations ago. Like many Appalachians, my story is woven into the history of our mountains and ...

The animals do not have to be physically scraped off a highway: they just have to be the sorts of creatures commonly hit by ...

During a recent visit to the "Star City of the South," I stayed in a fire station-turned-boutique hotel and dined on small ...

AVERY COUNTY, North Carolina — If there is such a thing as the classic Appalachian success story, the rise in popularity of the outside-the-box band Cigarettes @ Sunset would be that story. But ...