Embark on a journey through Appalachia with Tipper Pressley! Find out her Net Worth and explore her captivating bio. Since 2008, she's been sharing
No one knows what inspired its transformation from a hunting weapon, but the mouth bow is one of humanity's oldest and simplest instruments. Originally published as "THE APPALACHIAN MOUTH BOW EASY TO MAKE EASY TO PLAY" in the May/June 1983 issue of MOTHER EARTH NEWS.
This book features the lifelong friendship of two girls from Elkins, WV, whose resilience, humor, and creativity shape unexpected lives.
The next photographer featured in the series Looking at Appalachia is Shelby Lee Adams. Shelby contacted me via Facebook last month and was kind enough to agree to collaborate on this series. After nearly three hours of phone calls and many email exchanges, he wrote the following essay, published here for the first time. Shelby Lee …
Appalachian folks blended ancient Celtic rituals from Scotland and Ireland, Protestant Christianity, and African traditions with teaching from local Native Americans into a unique mixture of witchc…
Whether you're hiking the entire Appalachian Trail or just after a day hike and a hearty dose of Mother Nature, these 10 adorable small towns along the Appalachian Trail are worth visiting.
John Dominis' 1960s pictures show day-to-day life for the forgotten people of America's Appalachia who sustained themselves on a bare government subsistence level and lived in shacks.
Starting at Springer Mountain in north Georgia and passing through 14 states, the Appalachian trail is over 2100 miles long and gains 90 feet of elevation (the equivalent of Mount Everest, sixteen times). 70-year-old Rubén spent 6 months and 1 week on the trail, but was away from home for nearly 7 months. He is only the 24th thru-hiker in their 70s on record to finish.
This 1966 photograph provided by the National Museum of American History shows two of Appalachia's most revered old-time musicians Tommy Jarrell with a fiddle and Fred Cockerham holding a banjo at Cockerham's home in Low Gap, N.C. The new Encyclopedia of Appalachia, which includes this image, challenges the notion that the region is still a place of hillbillies and poverty. (AP Photo/Courtesy of J. Scott Odell Collection of Folk Music, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution).
Check out the amazing transformation one man goes through after hiking from Georgia to Maine.
A wheelchair accessible 900-foot section of the Appalachian Trail recently opened along the Ottauquechee River near Killington, Vermont. That makes the fourth section of the AT designed for accessibility. A fifth is under construction near West Point.
Whether you're hiking the entire Appalachian Trail or just after a day hike and a hearty dose of Mother Nature, these 10 adorable small towns along the Appalachian Trail are worth visiting.
Virginia is home to numerous unsolved mysteries and cold cases, ranging from hidden treasures to serial
In the childhood days of my father and mother, winter was not a particularly pleasant time. Staying alive in the rough mountains was neither easy nor a situation to be taken lightly.
Photographer Stacy Kranitz documents life in this often misrepresented part of America.
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Roan Mountain Highlands along the Appalachian Trail I named this image "Touched by Grace". I shot this amazing scene from the Appalachian Trail at Jane's Bald looking over Roan Mountain. With the mix of great light on the grassy bald in the mid-ground, the rhododendron flowers at peak bloom, rays of light raining down over the mountains, and the nice leading lines throughout the image, I thought this landscape scene was just incredible! Hope you enjoy it, comments welcome! ;-) Use "L" to view large, "F" to fave it! Single exposure shot with a Nikon D700 and the 17-35mm 2.8 lens, CP and ND Grad. See My Profile for information on purchasing prints. Follow me on my facebook page! © 2012 Dave Allen Photography, All Rights Reserved. This image may NOT be used for anything without my explicit permission.
'Dead Fred's Genealogy Photo Archive' is a free and fun research website devoted to helping people visualize their heritage. It currently has data on 22,927 surnames but the content is interesting to scroll through even if you're not related to any of them.
Classic Southern Cornbread is the iconic bread of the South that has graced tables for generations.
I recently visited my mother, who lives in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, and was fortunate to sit in on a Galax-style dulcimer and old-time string band jam. I was told that the dulcimers would…