Hi, I'm Carley, and I'm a proud Appalachian. Appalachia is a very specific and often misunderstood region of the South. And yes, while the Appalachian Mountains range from Newfoundland, Canada, to ...

What is Appalachia without biscuits & cornbread?! We talk with a historian & explore restaurants. What is Appalachia without some biscuits and cornbread?! We talk with historian and expert, Leni ...

For generations in the Appalachian Mountains, salt was more than a seasoning, it was vital to survival. Before electricity, ...

Like JD Vance, I am from the great state of Ohio. I knew about the first-term U.S. senator long before Donald Trump announced him as his running mate. Vance's memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy," piqued my ...

We dive into the rich sounds of old-time music in Appalachia. We dive into the rich sounds of old-time music in Appalachia with a visit to the Floyd Country Store, a cherished hub for Virginia’s ...

ON THE TRAIL: In his latest poetry collection, If Lost, local poet Clint Bowman examines a number of topics, including the parallels between humans and wildlife. Photo by Thomas Calder Editor’s note: ...

“Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains,” Ballantine Books, by Cassie Chambers Written by a young lawyer whose roots run deep in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern ...

In this Oct. 16, 2014 photo, fog hovers over a mountaintop as a cut out of a coal miner stands at a memorial to local miners killed on the job in Cumberland, Ky. For over a century, life in Central ...

Two Appalachian states are bound by the same opioid crisis but are taking different paths forward. The Post traveled to West ...

The recent death of former Kentucky poet laureate Gurney Norman has been keenly felt all across the literary world and of ...

JD Vance's 2016 book "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis" tells the real-life story of his ...

Death is something that is difficult to discuss – or even write about – but death is something that is as inevitable as taxes or political bickering. There is a tradition in Appalachia that dates back ...