The Boone, N.C.-based non-profit group Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture received a $1.1 million grant from Heifer USA to strengthen the local food system in what is known as the High Country region of North Carolina. The Seeds of Change…
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Seeds of Change Initiative to Improve Access to Local Food
TAGS: Beyond Coal campaign Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture Boone Heifer USA High Country region local farming Mayberry Solar Farm Mount Airy North Carolina O2 Energies Seeds of Change Initiative Sierra Club sustainable farming Tennessee University of Kentucky in Lexington Watauga High School Wind for Schools
Another Nordic Revolution
By Kristian Jackson It’s 5 a.m. and outside the truck, headlights reveal driving snow squalls and drifts as high as the pickup’s hood. Our crawl up Roaring Creek Road near the Toe River of North Carolina comes to a sudden…
TAGS: Appalachian Culture cross-country skiing Hump Mountain nordic skiing North Carolina Outdoor Recreation Roan Highlands Roan Highlands backcountry ski tours southern snow fall telemark skiing Tennessee
Golden Eagles Winter in Appalachia
By Molly Moore With their deep brown bodies and gold-tinged feathery manes, golden eagles are icons of ferocity. When Americans imagine a golden eagle diving through the air with talons outstretched, they typically pair the image with a Western backdrop.…
TAGS: Avian wildlife Eastern Golden Eagle Working Group Eastern golden eagles golden eagles Virginia West Virginia Western golden eagles Wildlife wind turbine
Old Folktales Die Hard
By Brian Sewell “Murdered in May of 1865,” a white gravestone on the banks of the Yadkin River in Wilkes County, N.C., reads. “Tom Dula hanged for crime.” The grave belongs to Laura Foster, the victim in one of the…
TAGS: Folktales Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina Happy Valley Fiddler’s Convention Sharyn McCrumb Tom Dooley Tom Dula Wilkes County
The Qualla Creators
Conserving Cherokee Traditions By Molly Moore On the Qualla Boundary, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ reservation, local resources have inspired arts traditions for generations. Today the community’s rich arts heritage is flourishing. The town of Cherokee, N.C.,positioned at the…
TAGS: Artisan Eastern Band of Cherokee Folkway Land Conservation Land Trust for the Little Tennessee Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual Qualla Boundary Revitalization of Traditional Cherokee Artisan Resources Watershed Association of the Tuckaseegee River
Bees Share the True Cost of Coal
By Brian Sewell Outside of Appalachia, artists who acknowledge their connection to coal have adopted the issue of mountaintop removal and taken to the road. The Beehive Collective’s True Cost of Coal illustration transforms ways of thinking as it travels…
Putting the Human Perspective into Mountaintop Removal
By Brian Sewell For every movement, there is a message. This message can take many forms, but often the most moving is the creation of art to inform. Art helps people see problems anew, even those who see them everyday.…
Paul Corbit Brown: Truth Before Profit
By Jamie Goodman Paul Corbit Brown’s life has come full circle – thanks to the lens on his camera. He was born into a coal miner’s family in Kilsyth, W.Va. For generations, every male in his family had become coal…
Bringin’ Anachronism Back
Modern Adventures in Traditional Appalachian Craft By Julie Johnson I was 25, slogging through yet another post-college retail job, when I realized I should run away to the hills and be a craftperson’s apprentice. It was a dream nurtured since…
