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Sam Venable

Sam Venable has been on staff at the Knoxville News-Sentinel since 1970, as outdoors editor until 1985 and as a humor columnist since then. He is the author of 10 books...

Dan Matthews

A retired Episcopal priest and native of Canton, N.C., Dan Matthews owns The Swag, a western North Carolina country inn, with his wife Deener. His first parishes were in Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau; his last post was Trinity Church Wall Street...

Adriana Trigiani

Bestselling author Adriana Trigiani grew up in the mountains of southwest Virginia. The bestselling author of the Big Stone Gap series, she has written and will direct a 2008 film based on those books. She has also written extensively for TV and film

Frank X. Walker

Frank X. Walker, author of four books of poetry, is a founding member of the Affrilachian Poets, is currently writer in residence at Northern Kentucky University and has lectured, read, exhibited and conducted workshops in places including New York..

Reporting from Wangle Junction… Not Any More?

Rex Bowman, born in the mountains of southwest Virginia, is a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee and author of two books. He has worked as a reporter for newspapers in California, Maryland and Virginia.

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Sam Venable has been on staff at the Knoxville News-Sentinel since 1970, as outdoors editor until 1985 and as a humor columnist since then. He is the author of 10 books, including “Mountain Hands: A Portrait of Southern Appalachia” and “Someday I May Find Honest Work.”

Sam Venable

Sam Venable has been on staff at the Knoxville News-Sentinel since 1970, as outdoors editor until 1985 and as a humor columnist since then. He is the author of 10 books...
A retired Episcopal priest and native of Canton, N.C., Dan Matthews owns The Swag, a western North Carolina country inn, with his wife Deener.

Dan Matthews

A retired Episcopal priest and native of Canton, N.C., Dan Matthews owns The Swag, a western North Carolina country inn, with his wife Deener. His first parishes were in Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau; his last post was Trinity Church Wall Street...
Adriana Trigiani

Adriana Trigiani

Bestselling author Adriana Trigiani grew up in the mountains of southwest Virginia. The bestselling author of the Big Stone Gap series, she has written and will direct a 2008 film based on those books. She has also written extensively for TV and film
Frank X. Walker

Frank X. Walker

Frank X. Walker, author of four books of poetry, is a founding member of the Affrilachian Poets, is currently writer in residence at Northern Kentucky University and has lectured, read, exhibited and conducted workshops in places including New York..
Rex Bowman, Pulitzer-nominated reporter and author.

Reporting from Wangle Junction… Not Any More?

Rex Bowman, born in the mountains of southwest Virginia, is a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee and author of two books. He has worked as a reporter for newspapers in California, Maryland and Virginia.
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