Echoes of Appalachia

Across Tennessee, the rural view is changing.

When Air Force One executed its low altitude flyover above Neyland Stadium on a crisp Saturday morning, it signaled more than just the arrival of a high stakes Southeastern Conference matchup between Tennessee and Texas.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law on July 4, 2025, with its major provisions placed on separate implementation schedules.

In the coal country of southern West Virginia, a town of about 3,200 people received 20.8 million hydrocodone pills over a stretch of six years.

Before funeral homes became common in the mountains, families brought their dead home, kept watch through the night, and fed the people who came through the door.

National parks across Appalachia give millions of people a place to drive, hike, explore, and experience these mountains firsthand.

A federal grant program meant to help farmers gain access to land, equipment and markets was cut in the spring.

How Appalachian food went from necessity to something a fancy restaurant might charge you to discover Some of the foods that tell you the most about where you come from are the ones you never thought twice about eating.

Washington can spend lavishly on presidential grandeur while asking poor Americans to accept cuts to the programs that help them survive.

Cherokee National Forest Faces a New Fight Over Its Roadless Lands The Cherokee National Forest covers some 660,000 acres across East Tennessee, stretching from the Virginia line south toward Georgia and forming one of the largest pieces of public land in…

September comes to Appalachia with a change in the air.

Dolly Parton, Wendell Berry, and the Appalachia that raised me There are losses that belong to a family, losses that belong to a town, and then there are losses that seem to reach across an entire world.

A mountain range carries no awareness of where a state ends.

Growing up in Spillcorn, a little community tucked back in the hills outside Marshall, the apple tree that meant the most to us grew wild along the dirt road heading up to the cemetery.

Long before the newspapers turned her into a romantic heroine, Anna Maria Jung had already built something rarer than legend: a life.

The quilt frame hung from the ceiling on four cords, and Granny would lower it when she sat down to work and raise it again when she was through.

I first learned about Doc Watson through the music that came from the mountains of North Carolina.

I first heard about the Brown Mountain Lights through stories about the strange glow that appeared above the mountains of Western North Carolina.