Tag: Appalachia
What is vernacular art? A visual artist explains
Beauvais Lyons, University of Tennessee
Vernacular art is a genre of visual art made by artists who are usually...
Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Demon Copperhead’ and the enduring devastation of the opioid crisis
William Nash, Middlebury
Barbara Kingsolver’s literary honors range from the National Book Prize of South Africa to the PEN/Faulkner...
No, it’s not just sugary food that’s responsible for poor oral...
Daniel W. McNeil, West Virginia University and Mary L. Marazita, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences
Brushing your teeth is...
La Crosse virus is the second-most common virus in the US...
Rebecca Trout Fryxell, University of Tennessee
For the Laudick family of Greensburg, Indiana, life forever changed on Aug. 5,...
A century after the Appalachian Trail was proposed, millions hike it...
Charles C. Chester, Brandeis University
The Appalachian Trail, North America’s most famous hiking route, stretches over 2,189 mountainous miles...
A century after the Appalachian Trail was proposed, millions hike it...
Charles C. Chester, Brandeis University
The Appalachian Trail, North America’s most famous hiking route, stretches over 2,189 mountainous miles...
Living with natural gas pipelines: Appalachian landowners describe fear, anxiety and...
Erin Brock Carlson, West Virginia University and Martina Angela Caretta, Lund University
More than 2 million miles of natural...
The chattering classes got the ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ book wrong – and...
Lisa R. Pruitt, University of California, Davis
Film critics have had nary a good word to say about Netflix’s new movie “Hillbilly Elegy.”
Reviewers varyingly called...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
