Appalachian farm

Cabin on site of Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tennessee. Fascinating place to visit to get a feel for what life was and is like in rural Appalachia. The little restaurant on site serves authentic Appalachian recipes.

Well, late summer is upon us, isn't it? Just the other day I happened to hear the first solid sign that the summer days are soon to be waning away...a jar fly. Do you all know what I'm talking about? Some people call them cicadas, some even locusts, but growing up I always heard my Appalachian family call them jar flies. Whatever you call them, there is no mistaking that the jolting, buzzing sound of one of those bugs coming from the trees means summer's days are numbered. When I was a…

This is a personal visual of Nora Bonesteel's home. Its off on its own, but with access for people to come by, as well as the forest area where Katie Wyler.

Buried beneath the stream-of-consciousness sentence structure in Faulkner's "Barn Burning" is the story of a boy and the father he both loves and hates.

What did an authentic Appalachian pioneer farm look like? Perhaps there's no better place to find out than at Twin Falls Resort State Park in West Virginia.

Old Appalachian Mountain homestead.

Come see for yourself.

The Appalachian Mountains are some of the oldest mountains on Earth – and if these mountains and valleys could talk, one can only imagine what stories they could tell! The […]