Appalachian History

Book Excerpt: ‘Memory of a Miner’

The story of an old-time coal miner in “bloody Harlan” (Harlan County, KY) in the early to mid 1900s, told in his own words and dialect.

Earl Hamner’s family was the model for ‘The Waltons’ television show. A new documentary traces the storyteller’s roots in Schuyler, VA.

New River-Highlands Resource Conservation & Development Council works toward a modern rural community living in environmental harmony.

Edna Fugate, Archivist/Reference Librarian at University of Pikeville in Pikeville, KY, explains the intricacies of preserving a collection.

Telling both the geologic story of the famed warm springs & how the waters impacted the history of the town around them.