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Barn Quilts: A Story in Wood and Paint

A rural Virginia county gains an artistic awareness of itself.

World-wide Shells Find a Home in East Tennessee

A shell collector has agreed to share part of his collections with the public.

Get Remote at New West Virginia Cabin

A new cabin recently opened on a mountain in southeastern West Virginia’s Camp Creek State Park and Forest provides the perfect place to get away from it all.

STAY Project Turns 12 . . . and It’s Here to Stay

STAY has recently hired Mekyah Davis as a co-coordinator working to include Black people in the Appalachian narrative.

Book Review – Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

Despite inevitable comparisons to J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy,” Cassie Chambers’ “Hill Women” is a memoir with a different intention.

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Barn Quilts: A Story in Wood and Paint

A rural Virginia county gains an artistic awareness of itself.
Exotic shells and other sea-based items and artifacts fill the Stimpson Seashell Museum.

World-wide Shells Find a Home in East Tennessee

A shell collector has agreed to share part of his collections with the public.
The Ranger’s Outpost Cabin: It’s a three-mile hike in to escape civilization, including electricity and running water.

Get Remote at New West Virginia Cabin

A new cabin recently opened on a mountain in southeastern West Virginia’s Camp Creek State Park and Forest provides the perfect place to get away from it all.
STAY has recently hired Mekyah Davis (far right in second row from back, in turquoise shirt) as a co-coordinator working to include Black people in the Appalachian narrative.

STAY Project Turns 12 . . . and It’s Here to Stay

STAY has recently hired Mekyah Davis as a co-coordinator working to include Black people in the Appalachian narrative.
Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains. By Cassie Chambers. Ballantine Books, 279 pp.

Book Review – Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

Despite inevitable comparisons to J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy,” Cassie Chambers’ “Hill Women” is a memoir with a different intention.
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Vibrant Monarch butterfly clings to its translucent dew covered cocoon
Creature Feature

Monarch Mimickers

It’s easy to mistake other orange species for the king of fall butterflies.

August 26, 2026
At Coopers Rock State Forest, new Stargazer cabins invite guests to look up through skylights and telescopes.
Country Roads

Even Closer to Almost Heaven

New Stargazer cabins at Coopers Rock State Forest offer a skyward escape in the mountains of West Virginia.

June 29, 2026
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Country Roads

A Mountain Tradition Turns 90 

Visitors flock to Galax, Virginia, each summer for the Old Fiddlers’ Convention, a days-long celebration of Appalachian music.

June 29, 2026

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