From the Hollers to City Streets: A Review of 2/3 Goat’s EP “Stream of...
By Beth Newberry The video for the title track of 2/3 Goat’s EP Stream of Conscience features members of the New York City-based band standing knee-deep in a stream in the mountains of Central...
View ArticleFinding Sweetness in Lost History
Tonia Moxley, avid writer, cook and gardener, shares the story of how she’s made room for bees in her backyard, like so many others experimenting in the urban agriculture movement, and why that journey...
View ArticleWho Can Speak For Appalachia? A recent transplant wants to know.
by Parker Hobson This past May 18, I made a 3-and-a-half hour trip in a rickety minivan, from my current home of Whitesburg, Ky. to my hometown of Louisville, Ky. I was traveling to represent my small,...
View ArticleBristol Builds From Its Music History Up
By Niki King BRISTOL Tenn./Va. – The moment the Gentleman of the Road tour announced that it would stop in Bristol this August, I emphatically decided I would go. It appealed to me for about a dozen...
View ArticleVery (Silly) Superstitious
Upon dating a man from Eastern Kentucky, Louisville writer and editor Lisa Hornung recently discovered some of Appalachia’s more eccentric superstitions and pokes a little fun at us all. By Lisa...
View Article‘All my rivers run back South’: Musician Jonas Friddle’s Tale of Two Cities
By Beth Newberry At the Appalachian Studies Association conference last year, I was talking to a student from Berea College, and I told him I was from Louisville. He asked, “How do you like it there?”...
View ArticlePi(e) Day Revisited at North Carolina’s Arthur Morgan School
By Ronni Lundy, Photos by Lora Smith Last March 14, the day each year known as Pi Day for its 3.14 month and day sequence, marked the first Pi(e) in the Sky fundraiser and social event to benefit the...
View ArticleRendering the Rural World Visible: A Review of “Render: An Apocalypse”
By Jeremy Dae Paden Rebecca Gayle Howell’s first full-length book, Render: An Apocalypse, which won the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize for 2012 is beautiful. Its physical dimensions,...
View ArticleA photographer’s “love letter to Appalachia”: Interview with Roger May
By Beth Newberry “I am both insider and outsider,” says documentary photographer and Appalachian Roger May. Born and raised on the Kentucky-West Virginia line, May moved to North Carolina with his...
View ArticleSaro Lynch-Thomason’s New Project Remembers America’s Largest Labor Uprising
By Niki King This February, I had the honor of seeing Saro Lynch-Thomason, an Appalachian activist and musician, perform Blair Pathways, a traveling multi-media show at Berea College that she developed...
View ArticleYou say App-uh-latch-un, and this t-shirt does too.
by Beth Newberry For many citizens and natives of Central and Southern Appalachia, watching the meteorologists on the Weather Channel pronounce the name of our mountain range is a cringe-worthy...
View ArticleA Musical Homecoming: Alan Lomax’s E. Ky. Recordings Return with Two-day Event
by Beth Newberry A big ol’ party celebrating music from Eastern Kentucky is set to happen this Friday and Saturday in the heart of Louisvile’s urban, Clifton neighborhood. The two-day festival, called...
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