The 1,500-mile Appalachian Mountain range stretches so far that those on the northern and southern sides can't agree on what to call it: Appa-LAY-chia or Appa-LATCH-ia. The outside perspective on the ...

It’s a fall afternoon, and Jessica Phillips is sitting in a log cabin and discussing Foxfire, the cultural appreciation nonprofit that for 50 years has transcribed and recorded the oral histories of ...

In 1966, students in Rabun Gap put together a magazine documenting their own lives and traditions in the mountains of northeast Georgia—thereby birthing a humble but remarkably durable publishing ...

Appalachia has been at the heart of much heated conversation in recent years, ever since the 2016 election focused eyes on a segment of the country that seemed emblematic of the white underclass that ...

Margaret Norton, who is prominently featured in the first Foxfire book, churns butter as she is being interviewed by a student in 1967. The original Foxfire book series consists of 12 volumes, but ...

Foxfire started as a class project at a Georgia high school in the '60s, but soon became a magazine, then a book, and even a way of teaching about... The 1,500-mile Appalachian Mountain range ...