Annihilating The Hillbilly Redux: Appalachia’s Struggle Against America’s Institutions is a profoundly important book for the ...

Before she was the Queen of Country Music and a superstar, Dolly Parton was living a humble life in Appalachia. Born in Locust Ridge, Tennessee in 1946, Parton lived in a two-room log cabin with no ...

Somewhere deep in this Appalachian holler, my Granddaddy was once a little boy running these mountains. Today, all that’s left are old photographs, stories and the feeling that the past never really ...

HARRIMAN, Tenn. — Students across East Tennessee got a firsthand look at college life this week through a field trip hosted by Appalachia Sessions, Genesis Generation Foundation's flagship program. It ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just as the leaves begin to turn, visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park can turn back the clock and get a taste of daily ...

Candles in farmhouse windows can shine a long way on dark nights in the Blue Ridge Mountains. That light was especially symbolic at Christmas when settlers in frontier Appalachia — many of them ...