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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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