The Appalachian Voice
Gray Mountain by John Grisham
It’s 2008, ten days after the fall of Lehman Brothers, when 29-year-old Samantha Kofer is laid off from her profitable but uninspiring career at a New York law firm. Within days she finds herself traveling the hairpin roads of southwest Virginia to intern with the Mountain Aid Legal Clinic, a nonprofit law firm in the…
Read MoreJoe Potato’s Real Life Recipes
Rooted in rural Appalachia, these tales feature animals, humans and plants that celebrate country living while being brave — or perhaps stubborn — enough to stand unflinching in the face of hardscrabble realities.
Read MoreBoard Member Spotlight: Two Inspiring Leaders
Appalachian Voices is paying tribute to two outstanding individuals, Christina Howe and Bunk Spann, who rotated off our Board of Directors after many years of devoted leadership to the organization.
Read MoreHellos and Goodbyes
We’re thrilled to welcome Lauren Essick to our staff as Distribution Manager of The Appalachian Voice and as Appalachian Voices’ Operations and Outreach Associate, and bid a fond farewell to former Field Coordinator Kara Dodson.
Read MoreFire on the Mountain: AppVoices Teams Up With Floydfest
FloydFest, a world music and arts festival held just off the Blue Ridge Parkway near Floyd, Va., is gearing up for its 14th annual event July 22-26, and this year the organizers have selected Appalachian Voices as the featured nonprofit.
Read MoreAddressing the Issue of Fracking and Pipelines
The rapid expansion of a natural gas drilling method called “fracking” poses a serious risk to human health and the environment in numerous U.S. states and threatens to derail the movement to shift the country to cleaner energy sources. We recently launched a new section on our website that highlights these issues and focuses on…
Read MoreA Better Path than the Coalfields Expressway for Virginia
More than 50 local residents recently attended three community forums in southwest Virginia to express their views on ways to improve transportation in the area.
Read MoreThe Crooked Road Drives Mountain Music into Classrooms
A new Virginia community college course will give teachers the knowledge and techniques to present the region’s rich musical heritage to students in a multimedia format.
Read MoreThe Kentucky Creative Industry Report
Arts advocates were thrilled when the Kentucky Arts Council released a report acknowledging the contribution of the creative industry to the state’s economy.
Read MoreFormer Freedom Executives Indicted for Elk River Chemical Spill
Federal prosecutors in December charged the now-bankrupt Freedom Industries and six former employees for criminal violations of the Clean Water Act in relatation to the January 2014 chemical spill that contaminated the water of more than 300,000 West Virginia residents.
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