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Every time Ms. Pat is on Late Night, it’s a moment. This time, her outfit was particularly fierce, and Meyers’s delight in ...

Dolly Parton's music has always carried a strong sense of home, but few songs are as personal to her Appalachian roots as “Appalachian Memories.” Originally released on Dolly's 1983 album Burlap & ...

Reba McEntire and Sally Field came together at the 2026 Primetime Emmys to honor their friend Dolly Parton, just weeks after the country music icon's death. Field, who starred alongside Parton in the ...

Iva Marie Gutowski is using social media to help preserve her culture and family legacy. She has more than 82,000 followers on TikTok and more than 48,000 followers on YouTube. She uses these ...

Iva Marie Gutowski is on a mission to preserve the legacy of her family and their culture. And she’s doing it in a way the people whose legacy she is trying to preserve may not have understood: Social ...

We’ve all heard the debate: Is Appalachia pronounced “App-uh-LATCH-uh” or “App-uh-LAY-shuh”? If you ask someone from Southwest Virginia, you’ll probably hear “App-uh-LATCH-uh.” Now, a Virginia Tech ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – If you’re from one of the 13 states in the Appalachian region, there is a good chance you’ve heard the debate over the pronunciation of Appalachia as “Appa-latch-a” or ...

Abby Walker, associate professor of English and co-director of the Speech Lab, works on an audio project in the lab space in Shanks Hall. (Photo by Jasmine Rorrer for Virginia Tech.) From Virginia ...