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The first program in the Appalachian Homecoming Series was a panel consisting of Helen Matthews Lewis, Pat Beaver (Center for Appalachian Studies and Services, Appalachian State Univ), and Monica Appleby. The group read selections from Helen Matthews…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The White Top Folk Festival grew out of a suggestion made to Abingdon attorney John Blakemore that a fiddler’s contest be held on White Top on the 4th of July. 13 In addition to being an attorney, Blakemore was a well-connected politician and an…

"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,…