"Old Christmas," said Olson, meant that "Christmas extended into the new year. ... Christmas wasn't a one-off situation, it ...

Esther Renee Adams, "Mamaw," was laid to rest in her own home. In the mountains of eastern Kentucky, such "country wakes" could last for days. Shelby Lee Adams Esther Renee Adams was born on her ...

High in the mist-laced folds of the Appalachian Mountains, stories whisper of villages that once existed and then were gone. Not destroyed by disaster, not erased by war, but seemingly swallowed by ...

Making Apple Stack Cake has been a holiday tradition for my family and for many other mountain people for generations, and is ...

Just as the leaves begin to turn, visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park can turn back the clock and get a taste of daily life long ago in the Appalachian Mountains. The annual Mountain Life ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Argues that since the conception of Appalachia as a distinctly different region from the rest of the South and the United States, the foods ...

I was on a walking tour with Dr. Joseph Fox along Asheville’s Black Cultural Heritage Trail. We stopped in front of the YMI Cultural Center, one of the first Black community centers in the country. We ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SWANNANOA, N.C. (WGHP) – A small business in ...