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Appalachian Homecoming was conceived as a series of programs all taking place at the Washington County (Va.) Public Library highlighting positive aspects of Appalachian life and culture. While planning the program we talked to people like Randy…

"With the aid of an ESEA Title II grant, Mrs. Elaine Duty, librarian at the John S. Battle High School in Washington County, Virginia created a Southern Appalachian Collection of over 500 titles in the categories of general works, philosophy,…

People know very little about Appalachia and much of what they know is wrong. "A story about flatboating on the Tennessee River in the 19th century suggests one of the reasons why this is so: flatboatmen taking a valuable cargo of products down the…

For most people, Appalachia conjures up images of majestic mountains, old-time music, and a simpler way of life. Since its recognition as a distinctive region in the late 19th century, Appalachia has been a source of enduring myths and distortions…

Abingdon is no stranger to poets and poetry. Longtime Abingdon resident Lou Crabtree, won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for poetry and was named Virginia Laureate in Literature.

The Sow's Ear Press began operation in Abingdon in 1987. Sow's Ear (since…

Appalachia, home of the "strange land and peculiar people" in thousands of stories, novels, radio and TV programs and films...has produced some of the most important writers, artists, scientists, and politicians in the country. These are the stories…

What is Appalachian fiction? What makes it unique?
Wendell Berry throws out some suggestions in his short piece, The Long Legged House:

“As I worked that summer I had these lines of [Andrew] Marvell very fresh in my mind, and they were having a…