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Sometimes creativity requires breaking away from the normal routine and focusing on one’s work. Now in its sixth year, the New River Gorge Creative…

Ann Pancake always wanted to write about far away lands. However, once she traveled there she realized the best stories she had were about her home in…

How do the wordsmiths of today describe Appalachians? The people who don't let a day go by without putting down on paper a song, or a rhyme, or a tale…

This week, we remember Jean Ritchie, who's been called the mother of Appalachian folk music.One of her most well known songs, “The L and N Don’t Stop Here…

Dr. Samuel Mudd, the physician who set John Wilkes Booth’s leg after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, has been portrayed in a variety of…