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# Appalachia Bare

Revealing Appalachia Story by Story

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- [Altered Trajectories](https://www.appalachiabare.com/altered-trajectories/) - I saw your face, and felt the gravity of the moment. The ghost inside echoed the shift, recording the tangent in my course. Your words, your touch, and your spirit nudged my bearing. Tracking left and right, I found no center where once it guided. Bending to the mass of our mutual core, it perturbed
- [Appalachian English Quiz 5 - Answers](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachian-english-quiz-5-answers/) - Appalachian English Quiz 5 – Answers - Linguistics - Appalachia Bare -
- [Appalachian English Quiz 5](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachian-english-quiz-5/) - Welcome to our fifth quiz in Appalachian English. I always try to write some little introduction before the quiz with a little tidbit of information about our language. Here goes . . . The way Appalachian dialect is portrayed in media, literature, and television often discriminates against and inhibits us. In recent years, Appalachian people
- [Country Sermon](https://www.appalachiabare.com/country-sermon/) - The summer smell of heat and hay followed the farmers through the white-painted doors and settled with them in their seats along two rows of hardwood pews . . .
- [New Orleans: A Childhood by Norbert Elliot](https://www.appalachiabare.com/new-orleans-a-childhood-by-norbert-elliot/) - What emerges in the memoirist’s pages is a sensitive boy’s attempt to navigate extremes imposed by hereditary obligations. Ancestral ghosts haunt the fringes of this narrative, refusing to die. The result of meticulous research covering centuries, Elliot’s chronicle documents his French family’s settlement in New Orleans and surrounding parishes while underscoring each generation’s . . .
- [Easy to Move](https://www.appalachiabare.com/easy-to-move/) - So say summer. Summer, I say, a time when time drags its warm belly on rocks caught in . . .
- [You Can’t Go Home Again](https://www.appalachiabare.com/you-cant-go-home-again/) - Honey Branch, not unlike other parts of rural Appalachia, has a paradoxically bittersweet character. Home to rugged mountains, babbling creeks, thick foliage and various wildlife, the natural beauty and quiet stillness of the holler recall a simpler time. It is only five minutes away from St. Paul, Virginia, a small town whose revitalization has focused on rural tourism like kayaking and ATV trails. To those of us who lived on the branch, though, there is a haunting darkness . . .
- [Wounds Between Us](https://www.appalachiabare.com/wounds-between-us/) - Nick peered out the restaurant window at their hatchback. A 2014 Subaru. Hubcaps had been stolen two weeks ago. Covered in dust and dead bugs. Everything they owned was . . .
- [Yard Birds](https://www.appalachiabare.com/yard-birds/) - Bird baths, houses and feeders (when the black bears are not active) lure more avian visitors. I keep my camera with a telephoto lens handy, and, as I hope these photos will attest, sometimes I get lucky.
- [Places and Spaces](https://www.appalachiabare.com/places-and-spaces/) - . . . for those of us who live here and love this land, it is more than precious. It holds our spirits, our hearts, our bones, our histories. It breathes with nature and wonder. And it often beckons us. I have experienced the beckoning myself: a deep feeling that . . .
- [Dilapidated Barn](https://www.appalachiabare.com/dilapidated-barn/) - . . . who knew what else lay there until I tore the barn down. Rotten floorboards broke under pressure; locust posts stood bone hard. After puzzling over my old bicycle frame— minus tires—I carried . . .
- ["The Great Smoky Mountains"](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-great-smoky-mountains/) - We passed some rushing waterfalls tumbling over rocks as they splashed down the hill. Daddy said that June was the peak season for the rhododendrons that grew wild in the park. As we drove along, the roadside was lined with their pink blossoms and waxy green leaves, and beyond them the lush green hillsides, one after another, becoming blue and then a hazy kind of slate gray as they faded off into the distance . . .
- [Cashmere](https://www.appalachiabare.com/cashmere/) - The plastic on the windows crinkled, the fire in the furnace flickered, and the room got colder still. Junebug’s black cashmere sweater was soft and warm against her pale skin. The moonshine warmed her from within. The dogs moved closer to the flickering fire and . . .
- [Rejoining](https://www.appalachiabare.com/rejoining/) - We’ve all heard of kintsugi, but gold is not a scar – precious, yes. Costly, yes. It has worth. Russet and flame, magenta and amber, these leaves hold the memory of . . .
- [My Friend Kate: a Helene Reflection](https://www.appalachiabare.com/my-friend-kate-a-helene-reflection/) - Even a year and a half later, I have more thoughts, emotions, and stories from those weeks of immediate storm recovery than I could ever put fully into words. I think a lot about the people I never would have met if the hurricane hadn't happened. I still have images burned into my brain . . .
- [Appalachian Bed Rot](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachian-bed-rot/) - Eventually, I stumbled upon the page of some woman I’ve never met. I think she goes to my papaw’s church or something. I’m not sure, but what caught my attention was this string of bad poems she kept posting. One read . . .
- [I Am a Warrior](https://www.appalachiabare.com/i-am-a-warrior/) - As I move my body upon the land The rhythm of nature flows through my earth. As my thoughts and words change, the clearer I see Who I am and how I can be A strong yet gentle, spiritual warrior My words sing freedom and power to . . .
- [Tennessee Deutsch](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tennessee-deutsch/) - . . . Unlike most of the locals around Bitburg, who upon hearing my Tennessee-accented mangling of their native tongue, would grimace and immediately switch to English, Dieter and Brigeta were willing to endure my twangy Deutsch. I was determined to exceed the typical U.S. citizen’s . . .
- [Wind Like Thurl Ravenscroft](https://www.appalachiabare.com/wind-like-thurl-ravenscroft/) - I was still. The wind rumbled just like Thurl Ravenscroft did from my room. A gust of wind blew through the treetops, and all of them let out this baritone groan that made my hands shake. Maybe this was what Grandma was talking about. Maybe . . .
- [Appalachian Heritage Project Presents:](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachian-heritage-project-presents/) - In the good old days, traveling entertainment events were advertised on cheaply printed cards and posters, making them easy to distribute and tack onto poles, buildings, and windows. So many of these posters went straight to the trash after each event. Thankfully, Tom Murphy has . . .
- [Heron Sightings](https://www.appalachiabare.com/heron-sightings/) - Over the sluggish Tennessee River giant heron swoops and lands like folded blue fabric . . .
- [Bring Back the Swimming Hole](https://www.appalachiabare.com/bring-back-the-swimming-hole/) - You only had to tell us once that there were water snakes about. Or that back on terra firma, there was quicksand to look out for. Swinging vines were eager to snap, and adorable bear cubs were sure to be followed by outraged mamas . . .
- [2026 James Agee Conference](https://www.appalachiabare.com/2026-james-agee-conference/) - Appalachia Bare recently attended the 2026 James Agee Conference located at Pellissippi State Community College’s Strawberry Plains Campus in Knoxville, Tennessee. I would encourage any writer---especially those around the mountain region---to attend the James Agee Conference. Wonderful experience.
- [Helen](https://www.appalachiabare.com/helen/) - . . . shucking fresh corn atop the shaded steps of the back porch recounting childhood dolls with hair made from the same silken threads I pulled from the husks . . .
- [Fractured Lessons, Unbroken Love:](https://www.appalachiabare.com/fractured-lessons-unbroken-love/) - In my case, and I’m sure many others, my grandmother frequently demanded I demonstrate my grit no matter how grim the outcome of doing so. Resilience is so deeply embedded in our oft-idyllic memories of our grandmothers that, as we age, our memories of them become our roadmaps for resistance. Shared through story on front porches across the region, these . . .
- [Hay](https://www.appalachiabare.com/hay/) - Unseen magic happened within the baler. Then dense gold bricks were launched out of the womb, torpedoing toward me as I scrambled to stack them in the wagon. By the time I’d wrestled a bale into position . . .
- [Editor's Poke 2026](https://www.appalachiabare.com/editors-poke-2026/) - But first, I want to say that this endeavor to bring Appalachian creativity, talent, and history to the forefront would not be possible without all of you—contributors, submitters, subscribers, readers, perusers, accidental wanderers—walking this path with us. We have been delighted, or “tickled,” as my mamaw would have said, to stroll with you. And we are honored . . .
- [A Big Thank You to All](https://www.appalachiabare.com/a-big-thank-you-to-all/) - What a busy and successful year we’ve had here at Appalachia Bare! Submissions have greatly increased and it has been such an honor to have been entrusted with such remarkable works and stories about the Appalachian region. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our readers, perusers, contributors, submitters, subscribers, and social
- [Camp Sale Creek and the German POW Camp](https://www.appalachiabare.com/camp-sale-creek-and-the-german-pow-camp/) - During the war, over 425,000 Axis prisoners of war were held in the United States, with 378,156 being German and the rest Italian. Tennessee housed more than 8,000 of these prisoners, with the largest group located at . . .
- [We're Not For Sale](https://www.appalachiabare.com/were-not-for-sale/) - But that is precisely what one should never do when they happen to hear their name echoing through the deep in Appalachia. Should one hear their name or even a simple ‘hello’ in the silence, it’s understood by locals to keep pressing forward without . . .
- [Down at Mullens](https://www.appalachiabare.com/down-at-mullens/) - Down at Mullens every porch has a puffed couch or wooden rockers where locals sit for a spell watching gravel trucks rumble on past Coal Country Bar and Grill, always crammed . . .
- [At Kennesaw Mountain](https://www.appalachiabare.com/at-kennesaw-mountain/) - The ghosts lie prostrate in the land While I cross where berms were planned As monuments to great last stands And retreats tinged with shame. Cannons cross at the Dead Angle, Where North and South were once entangled And Southern hope was slowly strangled. Then . . .
- [The Chestnut Orchard](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-chestnut-orchard/) - Horace, calm as always, loaded his muzzle-loader rifle, just in case, then gathered some deadfall tree branches, and built a roaring fire on the riverbank. Abby and his family huddled by the fire while Horace looked all around, watching for predators. Having only an axe, an adze, and a handsaw for tools, Horace created a lean-to shelter on the steep . . .
- [One Marble](https://www.appalachiabare.com/one-marble/) - He stowed the treasure in his pants pocket and began to search the creek. He waded up and down, turned over rocks, and dug into the mud with his fingers, but he didn’t find any more marbles. The heavy feeling in his chest that had become so familiar began to settle back over him, making him realize that it . . .
- [Return to 'Sloppy Floyd' State Park](https://www.appalachiabare.com/return-to-sloppy-floyd-state-park/) - . . . for now, I find shallow water and sit on a rock facing west, a creek exhilarates my bare feet as it . . .
- [Sarah Lucille Moore Traylor (1908-1996): Following the Trail to Fort Loudoun](https://www.appalachiabare.com/sarah-lucille-moore-traylor-1908-1996-following-the-trail-to-fort-loudoun/) - . . . she said she read anything and everything. She also took continuing education courses at Maryville College in Cherokee culture, Appalachian Studies, and Creative Writing. Her two novels and other writing bear witness to her careful and detailed . . .
- [At Home on Slate Creek](https://www.appalachiabare.com/at-home-on-slate-creek/) - Kim nods as she walks back through the dark, narrow hallway. Her chest feels tight. Marriage. Then she relaxes. Freedom. No more unending silence. No more curfews. No more belts. . .
- [Portrait of a Hillbilly Boy](https://www.appalachiabare.com/portrait-of-a-hillbilly-boy/) - My father was coal dusted and bent from the mines But he saw that I had a degree He taught me to hold a jack rock as . . .
- [Glass Draws Glass](https://www.appalachiabare.com/glass-draws-glass/) - Ivy’s stomach felt queasy as Paula returned with the bottle. Ivy stared, unblinking, as Mrs. Maxwell poured boiling water over the bottle, and the air filled with steam wafting from the glass. The water spilled into the grass filling Ivy’s nose with the pungent smell of the greenery. Paula’s mother set the pot on the cement . . .
- [Emily Singleton Art Gallery](https://www.appalachiabare.com/emily-singleton-art-gallery/) - Emily Singleton is a multimedia artist, concentrating in painting, from Plumtree, North Carolina . . . Her artwork most often depicts personal experiences significant to life in Appalachia . . .
- [Francisco's Book Review - Hillbilly Elegy](https://www.appalachiabare.com/franciscos-book-review-hillbilly-elegy/) - “Shut up, you fucker. You smart-ass. If I wasn’t crippled, I’d get up right now and smack your head and ass together.” – Mamaw from J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy My suspicion is that J.D. Vance tries to shock his readers by pretending he’s unfazed by his family’s white trash doings. For Vance, it’s all
- [Freeing Free Hills](https://www.appalachiabare.com/freeing-free-hills/) - In the year 2000, my sons Erik and Gabriel and I set out to create a video documentary of the people living in Free Hills, one of America’s last remaining Black settlements established before the Civil War. Located in hardscrabble Clay County, Tennessee, near the community of Celina, the Free Hills have been home to
- [War in Coal Creek - Part 1](https://www.appalachiabare.com/war-in-coal-creek-part-1/) - . . . around two thousand armed miners stealthily advanced to the Tennessee Coal Mine stockade. Hidden from sight, they sent three men to inform Colonel Sevier, commander of the militia, of their demand for the convicts’ removal. When the Colonel tried to capture one of the three men, that man gave a signal and “at once the two thousand miners sprang to their feet and marched . . . "
- [Faulkner in Knoxville](https://www.appalachiabare.com/faulkner-in-knoxville/) - All aficionados of Southern literature know that William Faulkner’s literary landscape was the alluvial soil of the Mississippi Delta, the author’s “postage stamp corner of the world,” in his own memorable phrase. However, Faulkner’s biographers often overlook or downplay his connections to Tennessee. For instance, Faulkner’s great-grandfather and namesake, William Clark Falkner, was a
- [Christmas Eve 2017](https://www.appalachiabare.com/christmas-eve-2017/) - Christmas Eve 2017 A clock tick away from thirty my grandson lowers onto a chair beside me where we stare at the curious chiaroscuro of Christmas lights blinking in a pattern as undetectable as the reasons for his diagnosis. He sips air with the feeblest exertion of swamp-diseased lungs. Some days he compares it to
- [All that Glitters . . .](https://www.appalachiabare.com/all-that-glitters/) - . . . on Sunday morning to church. The preacher was half-way through his sermon, when I felt something crawling on my back. Thinking it was a fly, I rubbed my back and realized it was . . .
- [Bad Mail](https://www.appalachiabare.com/bad-mail/) - Then, out of the blue, she got all paranoid and barked at me to stop touching her mail, which ticked me off. She accused me of messing with stuff, but that’s ridiculous—I only . . .
- [Our Sunday at Soddy Lake](https://www.appalachiabare.com/our-sunday-at-soddy-lake/) - Her bare feet shoved into slip on shoes A cigarette dangling from her lips. Windows down, my . . .
- [Our Summer Hiatus](https://www.appalachiabare.com/our-summer-hiatus/) - We wish everyone safe journeys, good health, and . . .
- [Small Town Scripture](https://www.appalachiabare.com/small-town-scripture/) - Blessed be the small town girl Who dreams of city lights, Chinatowns, and . . .
- [Talking Revolution](https://www.appalachiabare.com/talking-revolution/) - I try to think of a question to get us talking about this land we both love, but it hangs in the air out of reach. Instead, I . . .
- [Drowning with the Dead](https://www.appalachiabare.com/drowning-with-the-dead/) - I had to pry the details from her that night, like gently loosening rusted hinges on an ancient door. She kept dodging my questions as if something compelled her to keep the whole ordeal buried deep. But after a few hours she came out with most everything. Or at least with everything I will ever know . . .
- [“Glass Cabin”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/glass-cabin/) - We rise at dawn, Your nose still scrunched from slumber. I meditate to the sound of the sparrows, My prayer to . . .
- [Thank You, Lord](https://www.appalachiabare.com/thank-you-lord/) - My husband, imported from the Midwest, corrects me every time I call them stove eyes---he calls them burners---but we’re not cooking on gas and we’re in the South, my South, and I’ve always heard them called eyes and continue to do so. I grab a large-mouthed funnel, place it in a wide-mouthed jar, and . . .
- [Cherokee Rose](https://www.appalachiabare.com/cherokee-rose/) - Stood amongst the echoes of the Cherokee's despair, where sorrow's soil has sprouted hope, the Rose does declare. Its roots entwined with . . .
- [Livin’ on the Wrong Side of the Tracks](https://www.appalachiabare.com/livin-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-tracks/) - Anyways, when Mr. Hawkins-Mills arrived on their back porch that day, he was carrying a heavy block of ice to put in her icebox. With the sun still high in the sky, that ice just kept right on dripping all over the place. Mr. Hawkins-Mills slipped on the wet floorboards, and his ice pick . . .
- [Disaster in the Philippines](https://www.appalachiabare.com/disaster-in-the-philippines/) - Back in my quarters, that Black Saturday night was apocalyptic: tremors rattled the building; the storm raged with thunder and lightning; ash mixed with rain continued to plummet the base. I lay, sleepless on my bunk, as my roommate jumped out of his cot in the throes of a panic attack. He jittered about the room, moaning and praying. I was worried myself . . .
- [“Song of the Mountains” and “For Just a Handful of Coal”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/song-of-the-mountains-and-for-just-a-handful-of-coal/) - Strip mining decapitates the mountains Their remains are dumped into rivers Many tears have been shed by the sky . . .
- [Nature's Infinite Wonder](https://www.appalachiabare.com/natures-infinite-wonder/) - Sheree Stewart Combs Gallery
- [Blue Ghosts and the Holy Ghost](https://www.appalachiabare.com/blue-ghosts-and-the-holy-ghost/) - For now, the wind whispered across my face and neck. It felt like someone’s breath stood right behind me. A breeze seemed to hover around me so close that it curled inside my own breath—a breath that I can no longer call my own. Here, I share my breath with all who have breath and all who have . . .
- [“The Only Good Cat: An Appalachian Tale”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-only-good-cat-an-appalachian-tale/) - He was more nervous than before and kept looking around constantly. I tried to walk by him, but he grabbed my arm. He said, ‘It’s coming for me. It’s coming for me and there’s nowhere to go. It stalks me . . .
- [“The Other Pitty Pat”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-other-pitty-pat/) - Still uncertain whether I can be seen, I follow them up the hill, staying as far back as I’m able and still see their lights. I am eager to part with my peculiar company. How my feet ache. How my heart strains. I do not know what awaits me at the Hinterland, but I am unsafe where I am . . .
- [“Pitty-Pitty-Pitty-Pat”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/pitty-pitty-pitty-pat/) - He’d been hiding in the woods, and every now and then he’d get brave and run up behind someone at night to ask for help, but they’d hear . . .
- [“Soldier’s Song”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/soldiers-song/) - Then one night George had been awakened by singing. He strained to look at the pallets on the cold cave floor, but the sick soldiers slept on, unaware of the music. It didn’t come from any of them. Though his body ached, George rose from his bed to move toward . . .
- ["Dusty"](https://www.appalachiabare.com/dusty/) - Standing at the threshold, he searched the darkness. He couldn’t see anything, but that didn’t mean something wasn’t there, lurking outside the reach of light. Watching. Waiting. He knew it was out there. He’d seen it. And it’d seen him . . .
- [Front Porch Memories](https://www.appalachiabare.com/front-porch-memories/) - They were once so much more than an entry to a house, a place to display plants, deposit muddy shoes, and greet people. Their usage was year-round, utilizing a quilt, and relying on the sun, for cold winter days . . .
- [Hidden Appalachia](https://www.appalachiabare.com/hidden-appalachia/) - The following photos, all of which were taken in Western North Carolina or Eastern Tennessee, are but a few from my growing collection. While many insects and spiders are works of art in themselves, I’m especially thrilled when I can . . .
- [Announcing](https://www.appalachiabare.com/announcing-2/) - We offer our heartfelt thanks to everyone who submitted to Appalachia Bare’s Folklore Short Story Contest! Each story was well-crafted, well-told, and highly entertaining. Such great tales made our decisions very challenging.
- [Mountain Memories](https://www.appalachiabare.com/mountain-memories/) - I gather small fallen branches and twigs and arrange my campfire. Back to the cliff’s edge, to sit and look around. No matter in what direction I look, I see no man-made lights. The darkening sky shows a sliver of moon, and countless stars begin to appear. Other than the whispering of a gentle breeze in some tall grasses behind me, all is silent . . .
- [Amber](https://www.appalachiabare.com/amber/) - The man explained how he loved walking along the Baltic Sea. It reminded him of his childhood, picking up the amber that was tossed onto the coast by ocean waves. He held out his hand which contained small pieces of amber. He lifted my arm and dropped the specks into my palm. “I even found some today. I want to give it to you.” He smiles. I again thanked him and said goodbye as he continued on his stroll. “Wait, what happened?” James piped up.
- [Gramma](https://www.appalachiabare.com/gramma/) - The comforting glow of low light welcomed me in and I would nestle down into the covers while she flitted around the room drawing shades and making the room more snug. Always it was the same process. I found the sameness comforting. I knew the next question . . .
- [A Leap of Faith](https://www.appalachiabare.com/a-leap-of-faith/) - I gazed up at the old building as it seemed to swallow me whole Many walked through its halls as expectations screamed its call Years of deadlines and late nights had lead me to . . .
- [Appalachia Bare Folklore Short Story Contest](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachia-bare-folklore-short-story-contest/) - Appalachia Bare has received requests to extend our contest deadline due to Helene's devastation in our region. We have heard you. First, Appalachia Bare offers our deep, heartfelt condolences to the people in our region . . .
- [Our Winter Hiatus](https://www.appalachiabare.com/our-winter-hiatus-2/) - But we all have Christmas and Holiday memories. This year, let us bring our Appalachian histories to the forefront and tell them to our families. Let us come together and tell new stories, too. My sincere hope is that we as a mountain society will . . .
- [Cormac McCarthy’s Stella Maris](https://www.appalachiabare.com/cormac-mccarthys-stella-marris/) - Cantor, Gauss, Riemann, Euler. Hilbert. Poincaré. Noether. Hypatia. Klein, Minkowski, Turing, von Neumann. Cauchy, Lie, Dedekind, Brouwer. Boole. Peano. Hamilton, Laplace, Lagrange. If you’re unfamiliar with the names and contributions of the theoretical mathematicians in the modern era, then you may find Cormac McCarthy’s latest novel Stella Maris a challenging read. It doesn’t have to
- [Dead Man’s Run](https://www.appalachiabare.com/dead-mans-run/) - A swine of primal rage, they prowl easy with piercing hooves that tear like claws—sturdy in their massive form. “Hell-pigs,” the two call them, appear as a nightmarish fusion of demonic swine. They haunt this ancient forest, with their leathery skin and masses that ripple with an unnatural strength. Their faces are . . .
- [A Grateful Heart](https://www.appalachiabare.com/a-grateful-heart/) - Thank you, Appalachia, for all your creativity, talent, and beauty. We offer our heartfelt gratitude to you all, along with a steadfast commitment to remain a venue for the creative spirit in these mountains. We are so honored to . . .
- [Raised on a Farm](https://www.appalachiabare.com/raised-on-a-farm/) - Even though I’ve only lived in the South, I tried to make my own path in the world, from the East coast to the West coast, from my childhood to getting older, in between work to earning a living. The core values I gained from being raised on a farm guided me on a . . .
- [In Just a Year: Coming of Age in Vietnam, in excerpts](https://www.appalachiabare.com/in-just-a-year-coming-of-age-in-vietnam-in-excerpts/) - The attacks usually wouldn’t start until late, after midnight. There would be gunshots, the rhythmic thumping of mortar fire, and the whistling of heavy artillery. Either our base was under attack, or the air strip or some groups of men were getting fired upon. The sounds went on and on. Sometimes we saw red flares shoot up—a red alert—meaning the enemy had infiltrated our perimeter. Somewhere, close by, enemy soldiers were coming. The shelling . . .
- [Mother: Time](https://www.appalachiabare.com/mother-time/) - Anymore, the bearded faces that smothered my cheeks with burns and kisses have been shaved. Some buried. The dresses now are too small, the laced edges ripped . . .
- [The Snake](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-snake/) - He gently eased his scarred arms into the box and lifted out a coiled snake. The snake twisted and curled its smooth body as the preacher began dancing while lifting the snake in the air. He passed the snake on and returned to the boxes on the floor, retrieving another snake from an identical wooden box. Sweat started to drip down Frank’s back and he . . .
- [Cass](https://www.appalachiabare.com/cass/) - That’s when the police scanner started scratching about a call coming in over at Jerry’s house. I thought, Uh oh. Cass and Jerry are up to something. The way Cass looked, maybe Jerry had roughed her up. Her hair looked wild, like a skein of wool yarn a cat had pawed with its claws. Maybe Jerry had . . .
- [A Reading](https://www.appalachiabare.com/a-reading/) - “That’s all for now. Don’t pay me. You will be back. You will be back next year. You will be back after you start that new job,” she stated, taking another sip of the Southern Comfort. I tried to pay her, but she vigorously refused to accept the five-dollar bill. As I was leaving, a brand-new . . .
- [The Indignity of Knowing by Amber Albritton](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-indignity-of-knowing-by-amber-albritton/) - Albritton’s poems take no prisoners. They’re raw, sensate, fierce---unapologetically so. She ferrets out the shadowy interstices lurking in . . .
- [Mammaw’s Girl](https://www.appalachiabare.com/mammaws-girl/) - I am seven. I lay in “my bedroom,” the spare bedroom at her house in Tazewell, Tennessee. Dusk settles down in the holler, and the only light shining through my window is from the moon. Earlier, I had . . .
- [“A Day in the Garden”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/a-day-in-the-garden/) - Most of all, I watch her Wander about her garden, Near-waltzing through rows of Tomatoes and lilies, Through okra, peppers, and fig trees, And I see . . .
- [Disaster in the Philippines, Part 1](https://www.appalachiabare.com/disaster-in-the-philippines-part-1/) - The commander’s desk rattled; his military knick-knacks crashed to the floor. I watched, fascinated, as a crack widened on the opposite wall and the parking lot undulated outside the ground-level window . . .
- [“Mountain Edging”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/mountain-edging/) - When you’re on the edge, you’d expect a century to look a little less like itself. Full of newness and breath, but maybe it’s . . .
- [“First Generation”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/first-generation/) - Love that churned butter stirred soup beans, fried fruit pies, Love that could read your fortune in . . .
- [Happy 5th Birthday, Appalachia Bare!](https://www.appalachiabare.com/happy-5th-birthday-appalachia-bare/) - It has been our great pleasure to have met and published so many impressive and talented people. And we are grateful for each and every one of you—our submitters, subscribers, readers, perusers, and scrollers. In these five years, we have . . .
- [Bruno](https://www.appalachiabare.com/bruno/) - . . . The entire process takes only minutes, but any sentient being can deduce that the agony is so extreme as to seem to last for eternity. I have a confession to make, Bruno. I’m going to enjoy watching you cook like a pig over a . . .
- [“Pinky Swear”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/pinky-swear/) - Make me the promise that you’ll never leave this coal slurry town. Sing . . .
- [The Unbroken Circle](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-unbroken-circle/) - Ruminating on the day, the peach and purple sky giving way to black, I was drawn back to the morning’s service and the disembodied sound of a dulcimer plucking out the mournful . . .
- [“Two Walking Sticks”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/two-walking-sticks/) - I think it is a snake, see how it bends. Kate says it is a hound, sleek for the chase, but whether hound or snake, swift it was not, for old men who use canes . . .
- [Bookmobile](https://www.appalachiabare.com/bookmobile/) - The man driver continued to pick up speed. While he concentrated on the road, Mrs. Sanders was able to free her hands from the twine, that thin type they use to bundle books. She pulled the bright red scarf out of her mouth, then considered her feet. They were duct-taped and out of reach . . .
- [“Trails of Wrathful Waters”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/trails-of-wrathful-waters/) - As the funyak dropped on its side, it rapidly filled with water and soon flipped over, throwing me into the churning waters. Under I went even with a life jacked on. As I came to the surface I discovered that the funyak was on top of me, and since no amount of thrashing could get it off of me and I stayed under water. As my breath started to run out . . .
- [Present and Connected - Danita Dodson](https://www.appalachiabare.com/present-and-connected-danita-dodson/) - Her deep connection with these Appalachian Mountains is evident in her poetry. Her words encapsulate the very essence of this region – from ancestors to the natural world and in between. Her own mountain spirit and philosophy of interconnectedness flow through her poetry . . .
- [Daisy](https://www.appalachiabare.com/daisy/) - It looked like all his worldly possessions were in the cart. He was holding up a cardboard sign that said, “Please Help.” Next to him, sitting at his feet, was a small brown dog. Like everyone else, I passed him by, but, as I drove away, it began to bother me. I’m not wealthy, but I could certainly . . .
- ["Attentive"](https://www.appalachiabare.com/attentive/) - It was early springtime, where down by the sleepy willows, brilliantly flocked buttercups were . . .
- [How to Take Care of a Stream](https://www.appalachiabare.com/how-to-take-care-of-a-stream/) - We work our way next through a scruffy zone of ironweed, oxeye daisies and Queen Anne’s lace, then plunge to shade under trees, passing through a smattering of jewelweed, poison ivy and monkey flower. Then, at last, in deep shade, we come to water . . .
- [The Floods of Johnstown, Pennsylvania](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-floods-of-johnstown-pennsylvania/) - Standing on the edge of the road and looking up and down the hill, there really was no road. Just debris and rubble, with no viable means of transportation. Many of the buildings on either side of the road were damaged. No water in sight. To me, it looked like a war zone. The street had been . . .
- ["Powell Valley Scenic Overlook" and "Revelation"](https://www.appalachiabare.com/powell-valley-scenic-overlook-and-revelation/) - Clouds pinwheel atop mountain-pleated land, celebrating . . .
- [Going to Water](https://www.appalachiabare.com/going-to-water/) - Growing tired of her chase, the child wobbles across the smooth creek stones down to other adventures, swishing the bottom of Mama’s much too big t-shirt through the water. The steady warmth of July fights off the chill of the mountain creek that has already numbed her legs and toes . . .
- [Sent Away](https://www.appalachiabare.com/sent-away/) - Filled with great emotion, I walked up to the backdoor steps of the new house and stood on the first step, unable to open the door. Tears welled up in my eyes . . .
- [Elkmont: Still Not an Abandoned Ghost Town](https://www.appalachiabare.com/elkmont-still-not-an-abandoned-ghost-town/) - The state of Tennessee condemned the Elkmont summer cabins asserting eminent domain over the use of the land. Summer families fought back, and a deal was struck. They could stay if . . .
- [“Resting Fields”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/resting-fields/) - Wistful air in the resting field of The fallen and beloved, who Have taken a lifetime to finally rest . . .
- [Remembering Miss Annabel Aslinger](https://www.appalachiabare.com/remembering-miss-annabel-aslinger/) - Annabel was tough, and she did not take prisoners. No excuses for failure to complete assignments were accepted. If a person was still drawing breath into their body, had blood coursing through their veins, and was still warm, they had darn well better have done their homework, or a browbeating ensued. She required book reports every two weeks. I remember vividly . . .
- ["For Richard Marius, My Teacher: In Memory"](https://www.appalachiabare.com/for-richard-marius-my-teacher-in-memory/) - Hands clasped, folded like prayer on the desk. No notes because you needed none. We traveled from Augustine to Teddy Roosevelt in a semester, pausing only to hear Abraham Lincoln . . .
- [A Stitch in Time](https://www.appalachiabare.com/a-stitch-in-time/) - I keep Great-Aunt Bonnie’s sewing box tucked away in a closet. Mama gave it to me long ago after Bonnie died. It isn’t really a box at all, but a big Christmas cookie tin . . .
- [Lottie Finds Work in the Fields](https://www.appalachiabare.com/lottie-finds-work-in-the-fields/) - Next morning Lottie joined the men kicking up dust on New Cut Road, stiff from a night on the ground and stretching their shoulder and back muscles. With her battered fedora pulled low over her face, Lottie looked at a distance like any other young hobo clomping along in work boots and overalls . . .
- ["Greenhome"](https://www.appalachiabare.com/greenhome/) - It’s the green I miss the most When I close my eyes and imagine home. Roads that wind like snakes over the mountains, Through a tunnel of leaves as bright as any stained glass–
- [Reading Faulkner by Richard Marius](https://www.appalachiabare.com/reading-faulkner-by-richard-marius/) - As a graduate student in the 1970s and college English instructor in the 1980s, I could scarcely ignore the tempestuous currents spawned by the literary and cultural movement known as Deconstruction. The brain child of contemporary French philosopher Jacques Derrida, Deconstruction challenged decades of academia’s approach to understanding literature. Deconstructionists argued that culture itself was a text. As such, the movement’s adherents assumed that . . .
- [Cedar Creek](https://www.appalachiabare.com/cedar-creek/) - A small boat skims across the surface of a lake, an old man at the helm. His white hair flutters in the wind. He is smiling. The sun is shining. He guides the boat into a quiet alcove and kills the engine and tosses an anchor overboard. He leans over the side of the boat and peers into the emerald water as the ripples disappear and his reflection appears . . .
- [Appalachia Bare Exclusive Interview](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachia-bare-exclusive-interview/) - Founded in 2009, SEEED, or Socially Equal Energy Efficient Development, is an exceptionally designed non-profit with a mission to help young people find a way out of poverty. Their story is so unique because SEEED is an entirely local grown organization, cultivated from concerns about housing costs, high utility bills, and gun violence. These issues, paired with the fact that few real opportunities exist out there for youths to succeed and excel, prompted SEEED to start digging for a solution.
- [On the Other Side of Agee](https://www.appalachiabare.com/on-the-other-side-of-agee/) - When I was about five years old (before we moved to the holler), my family and I lived in a little green house on a little paved street in Jacksboro, Tennessee. My younger brother and I often felt cramped in our small, grassy yard, so we regularly wandered---but rarely too far from our mom’s sight.
- [“Joyous Freedom” – Joseph “Black Atticus” Woods](https://www.appalachiabare.com/joyous-freedom-joseph-black-atticus-woods-2/) - We're continuing our exclusive interview with Knoxville, Tennessee's Poet Laureate, Joseph "Black Atticus" Woods.
- ["Joyous Freedom" - Joseph "Black Atticus" Woods](https://www.appalachiabare.com/joyous-freedom-joseph-black-atticus-woods/) - Near the tail end of 2023, Appalachia Bare had the great honor of interviewing Knoxville, Tennessee’s Poet Laureate, Joseph Woods, aka Black Atticus. The esteemed Woods is a hip-hop artist and spoken word poet who weaves words into a tapestry of storytelling and poetry.
- ["sunrise"](https://www.appalachiabare.com/sunrise/) - the blues of sky and peak birthed a band of red-gold flame . . .
- [Life and Death in Carter County](https://www.appalachiabare.com/life-and-death-in-carter-county/) - At the age of 28, tired of bouncing from job to job . . . I opted to go back to school for a nursing degree. Once the transferable credits were applied from my B.A. in psychology, I could finish the program in only two and a half years. I just had one problem—I was broke.
- [Vietnam Sideways](https://www.appalachiabare.com/vietnam-sideways/) - for Big Benny A monarch’s image flitters across the honored on that glassy, black wall, floating sideways, backward, up, down, caught up in concentric wind loops across names, nearly 60,000 etched. A person with paper scratches a son with lead. She is gray, drained, rock-wrinkled. Old, fixed medals and buttons clink an echo. She shifts,
- [Flashback in Time (an Excerpt) by Benny Franklin Shown, Sr.](https://www.appalachiabare.com/flashback-in-time-an-excerpt-by-benny-franklin-shown-sr/) - My father passed away from cancer July 19, 2014. When he was almost completely bedridden, he and I listened to an audio interview of an old family friend. My father broke down and said, "Just think of all the stories I could tell but never will." I vowed right there I'd tell his story
- [Editor's Poke 2024](https://www.appalachiabare.com/editors-poke-2024/) - I wish everyone a belated Happy New Year! I hope you and your loved ones are staying safe and warm. In East Tennessee, 2024 has come roaring through like a mad badger, bringing with it a snowstorm I hadn’t experienced since I was a child. My mind hearkens to winters in the holler. We were essentially trapped for weeks at a time back in the beautiful dark places, where mountains hide the sun so that it barely glints across the valley, let alone the backroads burdened with ice under snow under ice under snow.
- [Our Winter Hiatus](https://www.appalachiabare.com/our-winter-hiatus/) - We’re nearing the end of the year and the holiday/ winter season is just around the corner. The chilled air carries a magical, fresh scent; holiday bells jingle our benevolent ears; families and friends gather for grand meals or just plain old togetherness. This season affords us the chance to hear our family stories, our histories, our proud moments, and some we might like to sweep under the rug.
- [Honey and Wildfire](https://www.appalachiabare.com/honey-and-wildfire/) - This layered life is a concoction of things sweet and fiery. Fables and folklore drive this land and the people of it, up the holler and into the hills, away (in)voluntary isolation. Honeycomb, oil lamps, and good heads on our shoulders— a community of individualists each with hidden talent. Reveal yourselves from the wooded shadows
- [Oak Ridge](https://www.appalachiabare.com/oak-ridge/) - Oak Ridge. These words always had an enigmatic, almost magical sound to my ears. I couldn’t imagine what my father found so fascinating about this place. More fascinating than nature walks in the woods. More fascinating than teaching biology at the university. So fascinating that he would give up the chance to spend the summer
- ["Let's Compose Something"](https://www.appalachiabare.com/lets-compose-something/) - What possible connection could world-renowned, Russian-born pianist, composer, and performer Sergei Rachmaninoff have with Appalachia? Well, a concert, of course. But not just any concert—his last concert. Earlier this year, the UT Symphony Orchestra commemorated the 80th anniversary of that performance with a concert. Rachmaninoff was a fascinating individual and I’d like to share this
- ["Speaking in Tongues"](https://www.appalachiabare.com/speaking-in-tongues/) - Appalachia Bare is proud and honored to feature the Write the World contest winners for fiction and poetry, hosted by East Tennessee’s Pellissippi State Community College. The contest centers on an international-focused theme or topic. The college’s participants were encouraged to reflect upon and write about experiences living or traveling in a country outside the United States.
- [“Promises to the World”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/promises-to-the-world/) - Appalachia Bare is proud and honored to feature the Write the World contest winners for fiction and poetry, hosted by East Tennessee's Pellissippi State Community College. The contest centers on an international-focused theme or topic. The college's participants were encouraged to reflect upon and write about experiences living or traveling in a country outside the
- [A Hearty Thank You](https://www.appalachiabare.com/a-hearty-thank-you/) - We're coming upon a holiday where we as a people gather together and reflect on gratitude. We may contemplate the hundreds of Thanksgivings our people had before us. Or, perhaps, we ruminate over the gatherings in the most recent decade. A particular dish. A special person. A family tradition. We also remember our Native American
- [Chow Chow](https://www.appalachiabare.com/chow-chow/) - **Appalachia Bare is stepping outside of its usual practice of publishing only shorter videos to share this full-length documentary that takes a glimpse into modern-day Appalachian lives and culture. You can watch the full video below or open it on Rachel Harville’s YouTube page. From Rachel Harville, the director: Stories are healing, and they
- [Grandmother's Button Box](https://www.appalachiabare.com/grandmothers-button-box/) - Grandmother’s button box was always kept on her sewing machine desk. It was more of a small canister, really, made of tin, with a terra cotta-colored plastic lid. The box was decorated with images of people from the Victorian era shopping for fabrics and notions. I do not remember a time without its presence. The
- [Slow Food](https://www.appalachiabare.com/slow-food/) - No one comes to the front door of the old clapboard house, unless of course they are peddling something, or lost. The gravel drive shoots up a short, steep hill and curves around to the back of the house like a strong arm pulls you in for a hug. Leftover aromas of thick black coffee,
- [Edward Francisco and The Ever Changing Sky](https://www.appalachiabare.com/edward-francisco-and-the-ever-changing-sky/) - I recently had the honor of conducting an interview with our own Edward Francisco about his new book The Ever Changing Sky: Meditations on the Psalms (Wipf & Stock, 2021). Much of that interview is found below. The entire interview will be available this Friday, November 19, on Edward Francisco: The Official Website, with the
- [The Present Owner](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-present-owner/) - He didn’t know how many generations had lived in the house. All he knew was that the man and woman who’d lived there before had died from cancer and that the woman had obviously been an avid flower gardener. The evidence lay stacked in the old weather-hammered garage above whose rain-darkened roof crepe myrtle rioted
- [A Belly Full of Bugs](https://www.appalachiabare.com/a-belly-full-of-bugs/) - This story is about an experience I had with my dad on a sunny afternoon in the mountain holler where we lived. I was about nine or ten years old at the time, and my dad would have been about thirty. The details of that afternoon are not entirely clear, but what I do remember
- [What Glows in the Dark](https://www.appalachiabare.com/what-glows-in-the-dark/) - Oh, fruit loved of boyhood! the old days recalling, When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling! When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin, Glaring out through the dark with a candle within! (25-28) —from “The Pumpkin” by John Greenleaf Whittier, 1844 People living in the hollers are accustomed to
- [Appalachia Bare Asks . . .](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachia-bare-asks/) - Appalachia has a unique history and her recorded past spans hundreds of years. Everyone has a tale—tall or small, tainted or sainted—because these mountains are full to the brim with stories. Our grandparents (and great grandparents, if one is fortunate) have told us about so many things. Sometimes their words unfold a desire to know.
- [Christ-Hauntedness in George Scarbrough’s Invitation to Kim](https://www.appalachiabare.com/christ-hauntedness-in-george-scarbroughs-invitation-to-kim-2/) - Thank you for joining us as we continue celebrating Appalachian poet and novelist, George Scarbrough's birthday with part 2 of Edward Francisco's "Christ-Hauntedness in George Scarbrough's Invitation to Kim." Christ-Hauntedness in Scarbrough's Invitation to Kim . . . As before, the reader senses that Scarbrough’s “love of profligate / Word” (7) set him apart,
- [Christ-Hauntedness in George Scarbrough’s Invitation to Kim](https://www.appalachiabare.com/christ-hauntedness-in-george-scarbroughs-invitation-to-kim/) - Appalachian poet and novelist George Scarbrough was born on October 20, 1915. Appalachia Bare is celebrating his birthday this week with a two-part essay written by our own Edward Francisco, titled “Christ-Hauntedness in George Scarbrough’s Invitation to Kim.” The essay first appeared in The Iron Mountain Review’s George Scarbrough Issue (Vol. XVI, 2000). Francisco offers
- [“The Complete Pitty Pat Hollow Tales”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-complete-pitty-pat-hollow-tales/) - The following excerpt is from “The Complete Pitty Pat Hollow Tales” in Curtis N. Coulter’s 2022 book This Is the Way I Heard It . . . Not only does Coulter's exceptional storytelling and wit transport the reader inside his beloved Sale Creek community, the very place that inspires his craft, his stories are also
- [Taught](https://www.appalachiabare.com/taught/) - Creepy things happen sometimes. Halloween is around the corner and this past Thursday I had planned another article in our Appalachian Hauntings series about Richard Drummond, a coal miner (22-23 y.o.) who was lynched in 1893 by Tennessee militia soldiers during the Coal Creek war near Briceville, Tennessee, and whose ghost has been seen and
- [The Blue Door](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-blue-door/) - As I slipped out the screen door, Granny caught me by the shirt collar. “I gotta job for you, boy,” she said. She marched me around the house on the upward slope of the hillside; the kudzu was thick, and my feet tangled as she hurried me along. “Not so rough, Gran!” I pleaded. “You’re
- [Hillbillyland](https://www.appalachiabare.com/hillbillyland/) - I met J. W. Williamson in 2000 when we were both reading papers at a literary conference at Emory and Henry University in Emory, Virginia. I’d read his 1995 book Hillbillyland: What the Movies Did to the Mountains and What the Mountains Did to the Movies, and was looking forward to meeting the author. In
- [The Black Bear](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-black-bear/) - Black bears are as Appalachian as moonshine and fiddle music, and most anyone who has lived here has a bear story. In fact, most folks who visit our mountain hollers and trails have a bear story, even if it’s just a chance sighting from the road. They are fascinating animals. Their size and lumbering gate,
- [Look at Her](https://www.appalachiabare.com/look-at-her/) - He left work early and didn’t expect her to be home. But the hazy air from a fresh shower greeted him as soon as he opened the door. A pungent linen soap pierced his nostrils. He saw her straightaway at the small kitchen table in her pink bunny bathrobe, her hair wrapped in a towel.
- [“The Joke”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-joke/) - Today a joke sits heavy on my shoulders, The room running wild with laughter. The punchline? The sound of my voice Or, rather, a cheap imitation– What they think we sound like. Laughter scrapes my skin like Too-tight wool in the summer heat. It’s said that it’s a hell of a joke, a biting satire
- [Prohibition, Pleas, & Pardons](https://www.appalachiabare.com/prohibition-pleas-pardons/) - I hope everyone has been pleased with this Daugherty series, or, perhaps, been enlightened? My goal has always been to write the facts and let the reader sift through it all. Though admittedly, I may have either ventured into my own opinions or, perhaps, somehow revealed them in my writing. In this series, we have
- [Canning Salsa](https://www.appalachiabare.com/canning-salsa/) - Almost everybody in Appalachia has a home canning story. Whether it's that jar of pickles that just didn't keep its crunch, or the homemade apple butter with that heavenly taste, or the month canning went awry when several jars burst, and so forth. And I'd go even further to say everyone has a home canning
- [“Gopher’s Meadow”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/gophers-meadow/) - Down in the gopher’s meadow, The black water meets a bank of bright green— Littered with charcoal colored slate, shifted into a home for the little truth teller. An archway of vine spills over the rocks As purple flowers bloom against the august air. The walnut trees giggle from across the river, Dropping their seedlings
- [East Kentucky Morning - Julian Wolf](https://www.appalachiabare.com/east-kentucky-morning-julian-wolf/) - Appalachia Bare is proud to present a new music video titled "East Kentucky Morning" by Julian Wolf. Produced by Berea, Kentucky native Camryn Shaffer and Living Sound Delusions Studios, we hope you enjoy its warm tones and beautiful visuals as much as we did. "East Kentucky Morning" carries a timeless quality, embracing the truth and
- [The American Crow](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-american-crow/) - I have a little wonderland in my backyard. Among this happy place, dragonflies hover, rabbits abound, squirrels cavort, and a few dozen bird species flutter about. I love birds, but I do have my favorites. I love chickadees and owls. I think blue jays have gorgeous markings. The plain little house wren with its pot
- [The Need to Be Whole](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-need-to-be-whole/) - For a half century Wendell Berry has been on record defending small communities and local economies, dating back to his 1977 treatise The Unsettling of America, which, as Appalachian author Wilma Dykeman once observed, deserved to unsettle America more than it did. In his roles as poet, essayist, novelist, and, most especially, small farmer, Berry
- [Alcatraz in Tennessee](https://www.appalachiabare.com/alcatraz-in-tennessee/) - Earlier this year, Appalachia Bare took a trip to the Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. If any of our readers are true crime aficionados, this visit would be worth your while. The museum’s architectural structure is built similar to one of the buildings on Alcatraz Island, and the tour is self-guided and
- [“The Poet”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-poet/) - A poet lived in a serpeant’s mouth where he sat and dispensed wisdom. He was not old but wept frequently. Flowers withered at his touch and dogs scratched their heads at his perplexity. When times got hard (begging no one’s forgiveness), the poet reached into his side from which he plucked a grain of sand
- [A Stifled Working Class:](https://www.appalachiabare.com/a-stifled-working-class/) - Rebecca Harding Davis Rebecca Harding Davis was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, on June 24, 1831, and spent her first five years in Big Springs, Alabama. In 1836, her family moved to Wheeling in what would become West Virginia. When she was fourteen, she was sent to the Washington Female Seminary in Pennsylvania. In 1848 she
- [Flowers with "Friends"](https://www.appalachiabare.com/flowers-with-friends/) - We're nearing the end of 2023's Dog Days of summer. I hope our readers have weathered these days well. Some may have done just that. When my oldest son was little, he used to say he loved hot days so much, he wanted to be a lizard sunning on a rock in the desert. Others,
- [Eulogy](https://www.appalachiabare.com/eulogy/) - I love you Grandma. I love you Grandpa. I love your hands, Leathered brown from Years of plowing. I love your palms, Calloused from years of Weeding and canning. I love the syrup Before milkin’ time When the stars are still out, And I love you waiting now, With hoe and buckets, In that promised
- [Revisiting "The Legend of Rockface"](https://www.appalachiabare.com/revisiting-the-legend-of-rockface/) - The following tale can be found in Ivy Love Brown's short story anthology, Mr. Lotman. This particular story was originally published by Appalachia Bare in 2019. With the author's permission, we are revisiting the story and adding her warm tribute to the person who inspired the tale. Please enjoy . . . The Legend
- [Fool Killer](https://www.appalachiabare.com/fool-killer/) - The Fool Killer is an enduring figure in Appalachian folklore and oral narratives. Defined as an imaginary or legendary person, the Fool Killer is an archetypal character whose business is destroying fools. One particular Appalachian ethnicity, known as Melungeon, enjoys a rich history of variations on the origin and role of the Fool Killer, known
- [Blue Impala Chapter 11: “Fashion Flair for the Living and Dead”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/blue-impala-chapter-11-fashion-flair-for-the-living-and-dead/) - Introduction I was born and raised in Clendenin, West Virginia, a small town in Appalachia. When I was fourteen, my mom piled me and my sisters into a brand-new blue Chevrolet Impala convertible and we headed west to California, then to Miami, and finally back to West Virginia for a while. Blue Impala blossomed from my
- [The Way Things Are](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-way-things-are/) - “There’s been another school shooting,” announced Mrs. Anderson. She was sipping coffee from a chipped mug and reading the news on her phone. “It happened at Goode High just yesterday.” She looked expectantly at Tom, waiting for him to react to what she just said. Tom was Mrs. Anderson’s son, and had she not insisted
- [“What we find in the Magnolias”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/what-we-find-in-the-magnolias/) - when i was a child i would spend South Texas evenings throwing myself with reckless abandon into the gnarled branches of a waiting magnolia. above the pecan falls and beyond the waiting call of my mother’s dinner bell. all to sit for a moment with those sweet flowers in the mount above. i should have
- [Appalachia Bare Summer Hiatus](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachia-bare-summer-hiatus/) - We've all reached the midpoint of 2023, seen moons and days and times pass like a blur or a telling breeze. Together, our readers, subscribers, and contributors, along with all of us at Appalachia Bare, have lived each moment, weathered every hardship, and basked in many joys. Please forgive this editor when I dare to
- [About Our Words](https://www.appalachiabare.com/about-our-words/) - I generally provide a bit of detailed information with the quiz answers. Old Father Time, however, wouldn't allow me to do so. Please enjoy the following findings about our Appalachian language from Appalachian English Quiz 5. Click the gallery images to look closer. Aim to The Free Dictionary by Farlex defines "aim to (do
- [“Red Jaws”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/red-jaws/) - There was Red Jaws sitting on the couch, mom's half-brother, while we waited for his tale. He took a minute, easing into the story like a slow drink of whiskey. I ain’t drunk today he said, still too early but there has been many a time when me and a buddy would go through two
- [Legacy by Jay Reace](https://www.appalachiabare.com/legacy-by-jay-reace/) - https://www.appalachiabare.com/legacy-by-jay-reace/ Legacy by Jay Reace - Appalachia Bare - Revealing Appalachia Story by Story
- [“Moments”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/moments/) - Sunlight touches my face at dawn A butterfly lands on my hand Bees kiss wildflowers on the lawn Crimson cardinals present their demands The last glow of sunset reveals a doe and fawn Fireflies twinkle in dewy evening starlight Crickets and bullfrogs sing their soulful tune Moon-eyed owl keeps vigil in darkest night Witnessing myriad
- [The Gettysburg Ironies](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-gettysburg-ironies/) - It was the farthest north they had ever been. It being Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. They being George Washington Cline and Henry Lafayette Marcum of Mingo County, Virginia, which bordered Kentucky in the southwestern part of the state. Most people there in Mingo County were related to each other. George and Henry were cousins, and they had
- [“Really Loud and Partially Deaf”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/really-loud-and-partially-deaf/) - “Really Loud and Partially Deaf” dedicated to my Husband, Army Veteran Mark Batton My wife brings up a basket of laundry. She doesn't say anything. She doesn't need to. I know she despises folding laundry. It's a load of towels. I grab one. Warm and fresh-smelling. I fold it in half, then fold again, the
- [Appalachia Bare Gettin' Down & Dirty](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachia-bare-gettin-down-dirty/) - Last fall, Appalachia Bare had the opportunity to conduct an on-site interview with Wayne Mason, the Compost Supervisor at Knoxville’s University of Tennessee (UTK) Compost Facility.((Over the winter Wayne took a position with a city in the northeast to set up a municipal compost facility.)) What an eye-opening experience! Wayne took us through the day-to-day
- [“Flower Moon”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/flower-moon/) - The following poem from Anna Laura Reeve’s debut book of poetry, Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility (Belle Point Press), was a finalist for the Ron Rash Award and was first published in Broad River Review. Flower Moon One way to light myself after darkness is to fill my house with flowers—
- [Anna Laura Reeve's Debut Poetry Collection: Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility](https://www.appalachiabare.com/anna-laura-reeves-debut-poetry-collection-reaching-the-shore-of-the-sea-of-fertility/) - In Anna Laura Reeve’s 2023 debut collection Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility (Belle Point Press), readers will be transported from the domesticity of everyday life to the wonder of the flora and fauna in the balds of Southern Appalachia. Mothers will not be able to read the first poem without recollecting those well-known
- [Privilege of Witness by Amber Albritton](https://www.appalachiabare.com/privilege-of-witness-by-amber-albritton/) - Privilege of Witness for Monica Thinking about driving following you up lamenting my skin that some queen isn’t going instead of me someone who knows what I can’t whose teeth clinched quiet too as white-armed answers, anemic, flew up when you, your answers perfect. Electric. You wear those goodly words. I look like that white
- [Taboo](https://www.appalachiabare.com/taboo/) - Hot blooded rose: its per- fumed crimson bed – boudoir for a drunk and dizzying bee amorous and swollen be fore it sped in grainy dark where the sun used to be. Pixilated grains materialize in the likeness of my mother, then ten, swaddling a rose with tenderest of eyes unable to conceal her daddy’s
- [Whoever Heard of a Birthday Cake?](https://www.appalachiabare.com/whoever-heard-of-a-birthday-cake/) - After school one day, me and Gerod were walkin’ by Auntie Clem’s house and heard Ol’ blind Lester and her jawing up a storm so we decided to stop by. Everybody knowed and loved Auntie Clem. She was kin to most everybody in town. We went running right up on the porch and joined in.
- [Flooding of Hallowed Ground](https://www.appalachiabare.com/flooding-of-hallowed-ground/) - In 1935, East Tennessee mountain man William Henry Hawkins grabbed his shotgun and marched with purpose out of his humble, box-frame home, where he lived with his wife and young daughter. He then drove to Norris Dam as a one man show of force to stop the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) from taking his land.
- [Bicycles](https://www.appalachiabare.com/bicycles/) - Thinking back on my Amma, West Virginia, days has been bittersweet. I miss my dad, Ross Carper, and all that he was. He was such a good father and a sweet, kind, and humble man. He was a hard worker for Columbia Gas, as well as at home. Dad provided well for our needs. He
- [RPGs and PTSD or How Gaming Turned into Therapy](https://www.appalachiabare.com/rpgs-and-ptsd-or-how-gaming-turned-into-therapy/) - I have a long and complex personal history with Role-playing Games (RPGs). I started playing Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) in high school with a boyfriend. During the time I was dating him, he used elements of gaming as one of several methods of manipulation and psychological abuse. Further in, the abuse turned physical. I came
- [The Ballad of Fair Margaret and Sweet William](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-ballad-of-fair-margaret-and-sweet-william/) - Appalachia Bare recently published Stephen Billias’s poem, “Little Margaret,” a thoughtful and earnest homage to his friend, James Elton “Jim” McMillan, Jr., who was, among many talents, a musician. Stephen’s poem “Little Margaret” is the namesake of one of Jim’s songs. Stephen generously passed along a recording of Jim and his band singing “Little Margaret”
- [“Little Margaret”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/little-margaret/) - Many thanks to Appalachia Bare for offering to publish the poem “Little Margaret.” It’s about an old friend, the late James Elton “Jim” McMillan, Jr. While I was attending Emerson College in Boston in 1969-70, I lived in a house in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts, with Jim and his wife Irene, along with the other
- [Comics and Horror and Heroes, Oh My!](https://www.appalachiabare.com/comics-and-horror-and-heroes-oh-my/) - On Friday, March 24th, Appalachia Bare loaded up the laptops, business cards, and tabling equipment, and headed to the Magnolia Campus of Pellissippi State Community College (PSCC) in Knoxville, Tennessee, for the second Mag Comic Expo. The Expo was organized by our own Science Guru, Grant Mincy, who invited us to join the event and
- [The 8th Annual Young Creative Writer's Workshop](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-8th-annual-young-creative-writers-workshop/) - Creative people can be a bit peculiar. We have a certain routine before a dance. We like a certain pen, pristine paper, cushy headphones, a particular paintbrush, specific canvas, special guitar pick, etc. We like our silence or music or background noise. Some of us are exactly the opposite. We don’t care what type of
- [“Appalachian Memories”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachian-memories/) - Fatback frying in an old well-seasoned cast iron skillet soup beans bubbling Silver Queen corn with a plate of sliced tomatoes and onions on Mrs. Vashon’s table where we sit for hours as she tells stories of the past. Red Spruce trees swaying in the soft wind whispering secrets to one another while the calls
- [Riding the Rails](https://www.appalachiabare.com/riding-the-rails/) - Earlier this month, Appalachia Bare took ourselves a little trip to Chattanooga and visited the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM). While there, we took a 65-minute train ride on the Local((Why the term “local”? These short trains were a “lifeline to small towns along the railroad.” They often delivered mail, foods, etc. to these towns,
- [The Strange Case of David Lang](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-strange-case-of-david-lang/) - The following story, first appeared in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. It was so convincing that the editors listed the author as “Edward Lang” instead of “Edward Francisco.” I was named for my great-grandfather, David Lang. David has long been a source of speculation and fascination owing to his disappearance near Gallatin, Tennessee,
- [“Smoky Mountain Memory”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/smoky-mountain-memory/) - Beneath yellow buckeyes and silver bells, we dip our feet in the cool rushing rapids as the Little Pigeon River’s clear flow bathes the large rocks that seem to tumble like fallen giants from the Chimney Tops. Around us are the cucumber magnolias, adopted into the diverse overstory of the cove hardwood forest in a
- [Danita Dodson’s The Medicine Woods](https://www.appalachiabare.com/danita-dodsons-the-medicine-woods/) - Danita Dodson’s new book of poetry is called The Medicine Woods. If you recall, our Associate Editor, Edward Francisco reviewed her last book, Trailing the Azimuth. Her poems speak so easily to my heart, so I wanted to write the review for her new collection. In The Medicine Woods, her poems conjure longings for Appalachian
- [One for the Girls](https://www.appalachiabare.com/one-for-the-girls/) - Mary Ruden has compiled a wonderful little book about Tennessee women who changed history. From suffragists, to a preservationist, a granny woman, and a Revolutionary War heroine, Ruden has depicted each life in a thoughtful, artful, creative way. Most all of these historical heroines have two pages devoted to them containing a concise, easy-to-read biography
- [Capturing Appalachia -- Honorable Mention](https://www.appalachiabare.com/capturing-appalachia-honorable-mention/) - I am a student at Pellissippi State Community College pursuing Chemical Engineering. I began my journey into photography about 2 years ago. I do it for fun and sometimes I take pictures for family and friends. My favorite thing about photography is how it allows us to share our experiences with others. I'm very thankful
- [The Ballad of Barbara Allen](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-ballad-of-barbara-allen/) - **Featured Image: Barbara Allen's Cruelty by H. M. Brock (Cropped) My maternal great-grandmother, Cora (McNeely) Goins, lived a good deal of her adult life in a coal camp, just down the road from Kentucky, in Westbourne, Tennessee. As the coal boom slowed and the company’s profits waned, the coal barons abandoned Westbourne, leaving the remaining
- [Capturing Appalachia -- Second Place Photograph](https://www.appalachiabare.com/capturing-appalachia-second-place-photograph/) - Photography has always been my passion. I have been photographing images since I was a child. I grew up exploring all of beautiful Appalachia and continue to do so. After obtaining my BBA in 2018, I began my photography business, GingerSnapzShots. Nature and landscapes are my favorite. I love capturing scenes in ways that can
- [Capturing Appalachia -- First Place Photograph](https://www.appalachiabare.com/capturing-appalachia-first-place-photograph/) - "Changing Seasons” was taken in my home county of Scioto, Ohio, near the edge of our local Shawnee National Forest. My parents are not native to this region but fell in love with its natural beauty, just as I have. They also gifted me the philosophy to love what you do, and that comes through
- [Announcing:](https://www.appalachiabare.com/announcing/) - Thank you to everyone who participated in Appalachia Bare’s photography contest. We received many brilliant and outstanding images. Our judges, Trent Eades and Jim Clark, had a challenging time making their decisions. Our staff has viewed the Appalachian region through the eyes of every photographer who submitted to this contest, and the experience has been a
- [Death Comes in Threes](https://www.appalachiabare.com/death-comes-in-threes/) - Trigger Warning: The following article contains details about murder and gun violence. We’re there once again, on that early afternoon on April 9, 1922, watching from behind wide, untouched trees, sitting among wildflowers, wild life, and wild ginger. Deputy Sheriff Byrd Daugherty’s side came upon Daniel Britton Daugherty’s side on the fork of the mountain,
- [Neighbor](https://www.appalachiabare.com/neighbor/) - His breath is bad: cigarettes and agitated solitude. He stands outside his car excavating shrapnel from his hand, vestiges of a lawnmower blade sharpened cruelly, sparks taking revenge as metal glazed in splinters. The VA doctor, to whom he resents going, says he is lucky the constant picking has not resulted in gangrene. He wants
- [Groundhog Day](https://www.appalachiabare.com/groundhog-day/) - A childhood memory, ca. 1965, when I was nine years old in Swannanoa, North Carolina . . . Up in the holler . . . If my memory serves me correctly, it was late afternoon; I don’t remember what season of the year it was, although it was warm outside. As I often did in
- [Love Spoons & Paper Valentines](https://www.appalachiabare.com/love-spoons-paper-valentines/) - Some of our readers may remember receiving valentine cards in elementary school. February 14th was a highly anticipated day for school children. We had parties back then with candy and cake and punch. My mother took my brother and I shopping for valentines. We could choose any set we wanted (within budget), and that was
- [From the Bygone](https://www.appalachiabare.com/from-the-bygone/) - Since our Capturing Appalachia Photography Contest is now closed, Appalachia Bare thought it would be interesting to feature a gallery of photographers and cameras from bygone days. These images are not Appalachia-specific. Instead, they feature photographers throughout the United States and the world. These types of cameras, however, were used by Appalachians, as evidenced by
- [Where Have All the Paw Paws Gone](https://www.appalachiabare.com/where-have-all-the-paw-paws-gone/) - Halfway up the mountain, just below the broken down garage where the tractor and the rusted truck were kept, in an interior dominated by grease, dust, patina and ageless imprint of mountain people generations removed from the old country, a young boy would sit in thunderstorms brought by Norse gods, or dream of a milk-filled
- [Appalachia Bare Photography Contest!](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachia-bare-photography-contest/) - The Capturing Appalachia Photography Contest closed January 31 at midnight. Thank you for your interest. Appalachia Bare holds a genre-specific contest every year, so keep checking with us. We look forward to seeing more Appalachian creativity, as we take submissions year-round. For more information about how to submit your work, visit our submissions page.
- [Deadline Midnight](https://www.appalachiabare.com/deadline-midnight/) - The Capturing Appalachia Photography Contest closed January 31 at midnight. Thank you for your interest. Appalachia Bare holds a genre-specific contest every year, so keep checking with us. We look forward to seeing more Appalachian creativity, as we take submissions year-round. For more information about how to submit your work, visit our submissions page. Thank
- [“Capturing Appalachia” Photography Contest](https://www.appalachiabare.com/capturing-appalachia-photography-contest/) - The Capturing Appalachia Photography Contest closed January 31 at midnight. Thank you for your interest. Appalachia Bare holds a genre-specific contest every year, so keep checking with us. We look forward to seeing more Appalachian creativity, as we take submissions year-round. For more information about how to submit your work visit our submissions page.
- [Ungovernable Mary](https://www.appalachiabare.com/ungovernable-mary/) - Author’s Note: some factual details, Mary’s letter, and photos (scanned from the originals) in this article were mined from an unpublished case study I co-authored; my foggy, unofficial recollections form the rest of the story. For all dollar figures, keep in mind that a buck in 1978 would be equivalent to about $4.47 in 2022.
- [I Placed a Jar in Tennessee](https://www.appalachiabare.com/i-placed-a-jar-in-tennessee/) - “I placed a jar in Tennessee” is the first line of Wallace Stevens’ “Anecdote of the Jar,” a modernist poem written in 1918. Stevens’ canon of poetry typically explores the phenomenon of perception and the mind’s tendency to create its own reality. Anecdote of the Jar I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it
- [Editor's Poke 2023](https://www.appalachiabare.com/editors-poke-2023/) - Hello Reader. I hope everyone had a lovely holiday season. We have all filed away 2022 and welcomed a bright new 2023. For this new year, Appalachia Bare plans to continue our endeavor to present quality content, to be a venue for Appalachian creativity, and to offer works about Appalachian history. I’ve learned so many
- [Race, Class, and Environmental Injustice](https://www.appalachiabare.com/race-class-and-environmental-injustice/) - Carolyn Merchant states in her article, “Shades of Darkness: Race and Environmental History” that “an environmental history of race” should be researched in order to explore environmental racism itself. Her article presents a dichotomous exploitation of minorities in lower-class and minority neighborhoods against pristine, pollution-controlled upper class white neighborhoods. She writes about the correlation between
- [The Legend of Rockface by Ivy Love Brown](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-legend-of-rockface-by-ivy-love-brown/) - The following tale, "Legend of Rockface," can be found in Ivy Love Brown's short story anthology, Mr. Lotman. “WHAT I’M ABOUT TO TELL YOU AIN’T NO TALL TALE. It’s true. Every line. I’ve fished this here water my whole life. I’ve seen every bit of ribbon that is the Tennessee River. I know these
- [With Love, West Virginia](https://www.appalachiabare.com/with-love-west-virginia/) - I spy my love along the ridge, a silhouette in shadows of black. I stand with my heart a breakin' 'fore I fear he's not coming back. We were to be married this autumn but the war broke out in June. With brothers at odds in the fighting, I fear this is no Civil tune.
- [Happy Holidays](https://www.appalachiabare.com/happy-holidays/) - This year has been a whopper of a ride. We've experienced great losses, had good times, made beautiful memories, and enjoyed strange weather. We have lived our lives forward, with, perhaps, a different but better view of our fellow Appalachians, our friendly critters, our lush region, our close-knit communities, and our beautiful selves. Though we've
- [Soaring Down in Maiden's Blush](https://www.appalachiabare.com/soaring-down-in-maidens-blush/) - Grace put the top down on the old Miata and we burned the open road, our hair spinning wild as Medusa in the crisp late spring. We should travel to Monrovia, California to see Upton Sinclair’s house, she had said, and take one of those cross-country road trips on our way. Take your mind off
- [Betty Brewer](https://www.appalachiabare.com/betty-brewer/) - Betty Brewer was my great-aunt, though only four days older than my mother. I never knew Betty. She died before I was born, killed by a jealous wife who caught her husband and Betty in a lover's tryst at a boarding house rented by the day. Family spoke of Betty only in whispers, making me
- [Embraced](https://www.appalachiabare.com/embraced/) - Inside and outside Appalachian homes, you might find any number of up-cycled, homemade gadgets pieced together in ways that Dr. Frankenstein would envy. You might notice saw-marked furniture restored as closely as possible to original designs. Folk art, tasteful or not, could be a painted sign, string art, or even calendar pictures hung on the
- [Vacation Bible School](https://www.appalachiabare.com/vacation-bible-school/) - **On a mobile device, this poem is best viewed using landscape orientation. As a child raised right on the buckle of the bible belt, each June I could be found buried in the basement of a church singing Jesus loves me, and stringing salvation bracelets. One strand of leather, 6 tiny, shiny beads, and a
- [The Significance of Appalachian Music in American Culture](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-significance-of-appalachian-music-in-american-culture/) - The historical significance of sub-cultural music is dynamic. The importance of music as a generalization directly affects the health of a growing society, for we are all inspired and impacted by its power on a daily basis. Understanding where the nuances of a musical genre come from opens our possibilities for future evolution in art
- [Spring on Chestnut Top](https://www.appalachiabare.com/spring-on-chestnut-top/) - I long to lie in the thick apple moss, hemmed in by doghobble, leafy liverwort at my feet, lichen like a lacy pillow under my head, covered by a canopy of sugar maple and red buckeye, butterfly ghosts of beech leaves fluttering above. If I were very, very quiet, would I bear witness to the
- [Rooted in Radicalism](https://www.appalachiabare.com/rooted-in-radicalism/) - We lived in safety in a holler down at the foothills of Appalachia. We was holed up in a big compound with highwalls and all manner of protection and arms. The place used to be a gated community. Our folk took to callin’ the place The Kingdom. We’d learn about survivin’ and read the scriptures,
- [Potato Soup](https://www.appalachiabare.com/potato-soup/) - I have written a little bit about my love for these mountains, about my fond – and not so fond – memories living deep in the holler. The place where I grew up was an offshoot of an area called Demory Hollow. At one point in time, Demory was a community all its own, with
- [Thank you from Appalachia Bare](https://www.appalachiabare.com/thank-you-from-appalachia-bare/) - Thank you to all our readers, contributors, subscribers, supporters, and creative persons. Thank you for your interest and for entrusting us with such incredible Appalachian creativity. This endeavor has been an honor and joy. I hope we have done well as a venue to inspire creativity and spread a little knowledge about our region. Below
- [Flashback in Time VI](https://www.appalachiabare.com/flashback-in-time-vi/) - The following section is the last of my father's journals, which really turned out to be more of a memoir. This part is devoted to his childhood, so I have included pictures of him as a little boy. I hope his writings have offered enjoyment, knowledge, or comfort. A special, special thank you to
- [Mark Wallace Maguire Art Gallery](https://www.appalachiabare.com/mark-wallace-maguire-art-gallery/) - I am an artist who enjoys working in acrylics, ink and pen, colored pencils, and mixed mediums. Some paintings take 30 to 40 hours to complete, others -- painted in an Uber-Expressionistic style -- less than an hour. The subject and mood dictate the speed, emotion, color palette, and layers. I have only recently begun
- [PTSD in War Poetry](https://www.appalachiabare.com/ptsd-in-war-poetry/) - I cannot watch war movies. In my mind's eye, I interpose my father trudging through rice paddies in Vietnam, trudging through tall grass so thick, it slices the skin. I see his small frame - just a boy - whose uniform in later years fit his 13-year-old grandson. I see my grandfather in the South
- [Winter Vision](https://www.appalachiabare.com/winter-vision/) - From his window view my son seizes a ribbon of morning light that gives him excuse to pause, take measure of the ochre mist shrouding the still-dark presences of trees. He’s riddled in his chest by the sight of rocks splitting the sun’s head, now a wobble on the mountain’s trembling shoulders Snow dies in
- [Daniel Britton Daugherty ". . . and They Arose Against Me . . ."](https://www.appalachiabare.com/daniel-britton-daugherty-and-they-arose-against-me/) - . . . [and they] arose against me; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul. Psalm 35:11-12 Written (in part) on the back of Daniel Britton Daugherty's tombstone Thank you to Zach Foster and Ken Parton. Last time in
- [The Spirits of Hollins University’s Presser Hall by Kat Nelson](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-spirits-of-hollins-universitys-presser-hall-by-kat-nelson/) - To say that Hollins University is haunted would be a bit of an understatement. Records of the various spirits and supernatural occurrences popcorn throughout the school’s almost 200-year history: correspondence from the mid-19th century debates the level of concern that should be assigned to the strange occurrences in a student’s dorm room; the student newspaper
- ["We are afraid to sleep . . ."](https://www.appalachiabare.com/we-are-afraid-to-sleep/) - **Trigger Warning: This article contains supernatural violence and abuse. The Smurl family didn’t have an easy go at life. They were Pennsylvanians and devout Roman Catholics who were heavily involved in church activities. The family included Navy veteran Jack Smurl,((Jack Smurl was on a ship at sea during the Cuban missile crisis.)) production manager at
- [Senseless](https://www.appalachiabare.com/senseless/) - Something deplorable is occurring in the hollows of Appalachia. A person might trek through the woods or walk along a dirt road and see deer carcasses lying here and there. They are not dying for natural reasons. They are not succumbing to disease. Instead, they are victims of people who drive through backroads, shoot bucks
- ["Which Side Are You On?"](https://www.appalachiabare.com/which-side-are-you-on/) - In my 2016 stage play Which Side Are You On: The Florence Reece Story, I envision a scene at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, wherein union activist and songwriter Florence Reece and Civil Rights reformer Martin Luther King, Jr. are discussing ways for opposing violence. The exchange follows: Florence Martin, this Gandhi
- [Revisiting the Series “Appalachians in Moving Pictures”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/revisiting-the-series-appalachians-in-moving-pictures/) - A few years ago, I put together a four-part series about Appalachians in the silent film era entitled, "Appalachians in Moving Pictures." Every actor's story provides an interesting insight into the dawn of motion pictures and a place called Hollywoodland. Enjoy the following story about silent film actress Ethlyne Clair. If you'd like to know
- [Appalachians in Moving Pictures, Part I](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachians-in-moving-pictures-part-i/) - I love classic movies. Absolutely love them. They hold some kind of spell over me - a longing, perhaps, for grace or glamour or social etiquette or fashion. I mean, who wouldn't want to watch a stunning Grace Kelly in Rear Window or gander at a suave Cary Grant in Notorious? So, what defines a
- [The Appalachian Heritage Project](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-appalachian-heritage-project/) - An Appalachian Awakening is happening all around us. We peer through our emblematic windows – clear or murky – and see a new dawn’s vivid light peeking above the grey clouds that, to a great degree, were thrust upon us. Our eyes gaze upon lands and mountains where the footsteps of our ancestors are stamped,
- [“Old Enough” by Patty Ireland](https://www.appalachiabare.com/old-enough-by-patty-ireland/) - As a poet I have learned to approach syrupy topics, (tears, grandmothers and any thing that dances), with caution. But I am old enough to be a grandmother, and it just so happens both of mine could dance like hell and drive grown men to tears. One danced from Donegal to Baltimore, my mother in
- [Before They Took Him](https://www.appalachiabare.com/before-they-took-him/) - They waited for me before they took him. I closed the car door, slogged past family, noted the numbed, distant faces and swollen, zoned eyes; passed the old country roses, sweet and sundry; passed his hand-crafted shed that smelled of fresh cedar, heard the bustle of birds all around, aflutter. I make measured steps to
- [Seeing Through the Fog by Adam Miller](https://www.appalachiabare.com/seeing-through-the-fog-by-adam-miller/) - The following beautifully written article by Adam Miller first appeared on the site Waking Up in Boone. It was foggy almost that whole Saturday. I left the mountain in the morning driving with flashers and lights at a creeping pace on my way to Hickory. On the way home the fog was still thick,
- [Vintage Ads from Appalachia](https://www.appalachiabare.com/vintage-ads-from-appalachia/) - Have you ever wondered what ads an ancestor might have seen while reading the morning paper? Love them or hate them, advertisements are important windows into society. Ads tell us about particular time periods and what kind of dreams manufacturers or companies wanted to sell or perpetuate. Just like in our 21st century, companies made
- [Meat Grinder](https://www.appalachiabare.com/meat-grinder/) - My secret nickname, Meat Grinder, for the Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee, man displaced by the Highway 27 project was partly a tribute to his roughhewn visage but more about his making hamburger out of my life. He had put me through hell, but, with the assistance of a creative mortgage banker, I had won him over. We
- [By Ways of Rust and Flame](https://www.appalachiabare.com/by-ways-of-rust-and-flame/) - Tomorrow is the birthday of revered Appalachian poet and novelist Byron Herbert Reece (1917-1958). Join Appalachia Bare in celebrating his life and talent through a heartfelt tribute by acclaimed writer, Mark Wallace Maguire. I go by ways of rust and flame Beneath the bent and lonely sky; Behind me on the ways I came
- [Appalachia Bare - A Call for Submissions](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachia-bare-a-call-for-submissions/) - You have a story to tell. We all do. Ours is an oral history – told by great-grandparents, grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles, etc. Consider for a moment how many of our people's stories will never be known because they were never written or captured in time. Instead, they are buried deep inside the earth
- [“Rock, Paper, Scissors” by Becky Parker](https://www.appalachiabare.com/rock-paper-scissors-by-becky-parker/) - With trepidation; I approached my childhood Appalachian home, a shack really, high above the railroad tracks. The sole remaining object was the toilet, standing forlorn among the broken shards of rotten wood. A toilet, ironically, that we were never allowed to use, when there was a perfectly good leaf available in the speckled wood, and
- [Fisher and Willie: Ill-fated Sons](https://www.appalachiabare.com/fisher-and-willie-ill-fated-sons/) - In my last post of the Daugherty series, we left Byrd, his two sons, and Pryor Bunch rooted to the spot across from Daniel Britton Daugherty, Robert Lowe, and possibly a few others. If you recall, Robert Lowe reached into his jacket pocket, and I imagine that gesture put the other men on edge, their
- ["Copperhead Holler" by Bridgette Johnson](https://www.appalachiabare.com/copperhead-holler-by-bridgette-johnson/) - On occasion, Appalachia Bare likes to spotlight some of our best submissions. “Copperhead Holler” was written by Bridgette Johnson, the talented Honorable Mention author of our 2020 George Washington Harris Short Story Contest. We are proud to present this submission for your enjoyment. Bridgette Johnson holds a Bachelor’s of English from East Tennessee State
- [Byrd Daugherty's Mountain Justice](https://www.appalachiabare.com/byrd-daughertys-mountain-justice/) - Deputy Byrd Daugherty((In various places and sources, Byrd's name is often spelled "Bird." The way I was told, the correct spelling is Byrd. Another point: The last name, Daugherty, has also been spelled Dougherty.)) never reckoned that a bloodbath was coming when he stepped off the train from the Harriman and Northeastern Railroad and onto
- [Succession by Jared Crain](https://www.appalachiabare.com/succession-by-jared-crain/) - We trundled down the thin gravelly road, Dad and I, in the rickety old pickup truck, green enough to blend with the forest, especially after one of those morning drizzles in late summer that just makes the trees look . . . alive, more alive than usual. The dew-glazed hemlock and rhododendron looked especially inviting
- [Trash Along the Way](https://www.appalachiabare.com/trash-along-the-way/) - We have beautiful lands here in the mountains. Our soil is fertile. Our springs are clear. Our mountains are misty. Tourists flock to these lands because the stunning panoramic views are legendary. But we have a problem (one of many, to be sure). I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but we trudge through
- [Revisiting Myles Horton's The Long Haul](https://www.appalachiabare.com/revisiting-myles-hortons-the-long-haul/) - Revisiting Myles Horton's The Long Haul The remarkable thing about Myles Horton is that he chose to be a person instead of a personality. As a rising young labor organizer and civil rights activist, Horton was surrounded by personalities – a cadre of forward looking, socially attuned recruits, some who, in time, became household
- [The Fifty-Dollar Grin by Richard Yost](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-fifty-dollar-grin-by-richard-yost/) - Similar to many small towns, Lake City, Tennessee,(( (The town has changed names several times since its founding circa 1800. For a little Wiki-info, click here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Top,_Tennessee ) )) residents often brag about interesting animal stories from the town’s annals. The one that stands out to me is the 1931 confrontation between Brutus the bulldog
- [No Color Within the Lines - A Jim Clark Gallery](https://www.appalachiabare.com/no-color-within-the-lines-a-jim-clark-gallery/) - Sometimes a color photograph depicts the scene but misses the story. The main subject may be lost in an array of clashing colors, or bright hues might obscure a subtle message or mask the somber tone of a setting. These photos were processed with templates I customized from an Adobe Lightroom plug-in called Analog Efex
- [Going Medieval in Appalachia - A Trent Eades Gallery](https://www.appalachiabare.com/going-medieval-in-appalachia/) - Trent Eades is a journalist, photographer, and educator based in Knoxville, Tennessee; his interests include Greek philosophy, medieval and Renaissance literature, and science fiction. He’s never enjoyed long walks in the rain but is adept at short sprints through heavy downpours. When he’s not teaching writing and literature to students who may or may
- [Summer Hiatus](https://www.appalachiabare.com/summer-hiatus/) - Appalachia Bare will be taking a brief hiatus until August 11. We take two of these little breaks during the year to regroup and maintain the site. But we won’t leave you totally high and dry. We will be featuring previously posted photo galleries from Trent Eades and Jim Clark. Enjoy the works of these
- [Tennessee in a Quart Jar](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tennessee-in-a-quart-jar/) - Eighteenth Amendment Section 1 After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. My Daugherty ancestors have hovered around
- [DJ Cassanova: “The Love of a Vibrant Dance Floor”](https://www.appalachiabare.com/dj-cassanova-the-love-of-a-vibrant-dance-floor/) - I first met Cassie Watters when I was Local President of United Campus Workers (UCW). In 2011 I hired her to be one of our union Organizers (a decision I count among the best during my terms as president). Since then, I have had the privilege to call her a good friend. In the late
- [“Valoury Delia” and “Appalachia Song” by Bart Sides](https://www.appalachiabare.com/valoury-delia-and-appalachia-song-by-bart-sides/) - I. VALOURY DELIA Va’delia, a polio, grew up at village edge, wearing heavy steel leg braces with sweat-stained leather bands that pulled stocking runs up her legs, and walked with aluminum elbow crutches from which any shine had long worn away. In our wood-floored school, sweet with banana oil, we heard her before seeing her,
- [“little Sue from the North thinks” by Susan Bartolme](https://www.appalachiabare.com/little-sue-from-the-north-thinks-by-susan-bartolme/) - little Sue from the North thinks crickets is the night munching on itself and that loud bang wasn’t a gun but a single firework lighting up that skinny river where no alligator lives, nope and no snakes that somehow swim. those alien electronic screams aren’t those cicada things but really just the bushes, yelling
- [Blackberry Season by Pamela Brooks Shown](https://www.appalachiabare.com/blackberry-season-by-pamela-brooks-shown/) - Sometimes situations interrupt what a person has planned. Repercussions are felt in several areas, like a faceted, imperfect jewel. As Chief Editor of Appalachia Bare, I have planned so many things this year, and, hopefully, they will all work out just fine. But a recent event occurred that put a halt to all things. And
- [Surviving Sequoyah](https://www.appalachiabare.com/surviving-sequoyah/) - I briefly forgot about the butterflies in my stomach when the work clinic doc latched on to my genitals. He seemed to be checking for more than a hernia, but, sensing I wasn’t happy to be there, he quickly finished the cursory exam. A few reams of government paperwork later, including a set of fingerprints,
- [2022 USA Bicycle Championships -- A Trent Eades Gallery](https://www.appalachiabare.com/2022-usa-bicycle-championships-a-trent-eades-gallery/) - 2022 USA Bicycle Championships Knoxville, Tennessee - June 24 and June 26 "Criteriums, also known as crits, are cycling races that require a blend of fitness and strategy. Racing laps on a closed circuit, criteriums courses are typically about a mile long and feature two to six turns while avoiding any significant climbs. These races
- ["Elijah" by Daniel Dassow](https://www.appalachiabare.com/elijah-by-daniel-dassow/) - On occasion, Appalachia Bare likes to spotlight some of our best submissions. "Elijah" was written by Daniel Dassow, the talented Third Prize winner of our 2020 George Washington Harris Short Story Contest. We are proud to present this submission for your enjoyment. Daniel Dassow is a sophomore at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he
- [Flashback in Time - Part V](https://www.appalachiabare.com/flashback-in-time-part-v/) - I had a friend here [at home]. His name was Dennis. He wrote me a few times. Before the war, his house was like a second home to me, because I was always over there. He lived at home with his mom, dad, and sister. His father was a sheet metal worker. I just had
- [Appalachian English Quiz 4 - Answers](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachian-english-quiz-4-answers/) - See how you scored in the answers below. Kilt a. Quilt b. Cult c. Killed d. Kiln The “t” ending in kilt first appeared in Middle English: kelit, kelyt, kylt, kilt. The ending was first documented in a 13th century work called The Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy. According to the Oxford English
- [Appalachian English Quiz 4](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachian-english-quiz-4/) - I’d like to begin here by saying I am not a linguist. I have studied a small portion of linguistics, enough to understand a smidgen of what I respectfully consider a complex discipline. Thanks to our Associate Editor, Edward Francisco, who graciously gifted his library to me (one of my greatest treasures), I have several
- [The Neglected Piano by Joshua Hester](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-neglected-piano-by-joshua-hester/) - When we first arrived in Washington D.C. at the soup kitchen where we would be serving for the next week, we were met by an interesting sight: a visibly outdated building in every aspect, with wavy glass panels next to revolving wooden doors, and avocado green walls from the seventies that everyone wanted to forget.
- [Memorial](https://www.appalachiabare.com/memorial/) - An acorn is the fruit of an oak tree. Inside an acorn rests a single seed. Inside the seed rests an oak embryo. This embryo is produced by pollination. Oak trees have both sperm-producing and egg-bearing flowers that bundle together. Sperm-producing flowers, or catkins, are inflorescence clusters that look, in a way, like golden dusted
- [Brett Taylor's Old Roads](https://www.appalachiabare.com/brett-taylors-old-roads/) - The poetic form haiku originated in China as hokku before gaining ascendency in the 17th century as Japan’s chief literary form. Traditionally, the haiku was a succinct poem of three lines, the first line containing five syllables, the second seven syllables, and the third five syllables, for a total of seventeen. The haiku typically encapsulates
- [Earthlings - Part II](https://www.appalachiabare.com/earthlings-part-ii/) - More and more people are realizing we live on a finite planet, with finite resources, and the clock is ticking to clean up the mess we have made. Further, we are discovering that a sustainable life does not mean we have to give up our comforts, but instead expand them in new ways. I find
- [Earthlings - Part I](https://www.appalachiabare.com/earthlings-part-i/) - “Thanks for getting me out here, babe.” My voice is excited but gruff. “I didn’t get much sleep at all last night.” I’m feeling the effects of our 2021 all-day New Year’s celebration. Despite some muscle aches, moderate anxiety, and a tad bit of brain fog, I’m happy to be out in the mountains with
- [James and Joel Agee: A Coupling of Destinies, Part 2](https://www.appalachiabare.com/james-and-joel-agee-a-coupling-of-destinies-part-2/) - Joel Agee, the son At age 41, Agee had suffered the first of two heart attacks, the second of which would kill him when he was just forty-six, having recently completed his novel A Death in the Family before his death. Agee was contemptuous of moderation, insisting on living life recklessly, oblivious to the destructiveness
- [A Slip and Fall by Appalachia Bare](https://www.appalachiabare.com/a-slip-and-fall-by-appalachia-bare/) - Appalachia Bare strives for perfection. Yet, on occasions too numerous to count, our own errors blindside us with lessons in humility. To our followers via email, Facebook, or Twitter, you may have received an unedited article on Sunday, May 22nd that was sent prematurely. The post was the first of Edward Francisco’s excellent article, “James
- [James and Joel Agee: A Coupling of Destinies - Part I](https://www.appalachiabare.com/james-and-joel-agee-a-coupling-of-destinies/) - James Agee, the father I’ll start with a blanket statement: Most, if not all, writers are SOBs (including women authors). Take William Faulkner, for example, whose drinking bouts were legendary and whose daughter, on the occasion of her tenth birthday, begged Faulkner to stop drinking for just one day. To which Faulkner allegedly replied, “Honey,
- ["She Fled for Her Life" - Barzilla Daugherty](https://www.appalachiabare.com/she-fled-for-her-life-barzilla-daugherty/) - "All extremes of feeling are allied with madness." from Orlando by Virginia Woolf Love can be extreme. We labor over deep affections, encourage hopeful prospects, and bend over backwards. Passions rise, hormones rage, and dopamine surges. Eyes are star-filled and grins are wide and heady. Sometimes, love incurs disastrous outcomes. Such was the case
- [Martha Graham and Appalachian Spring](https://www.appalachiabare.com/martha-graham-and-appalachian-spring/) - Appalachian Spring by composer Aaron Copland (1900-1990), is one of, if not the most iconic and recognizable pieces of American music. Full Stop. The vast majority of people these days don’t know the proper title and may just think of it as the old Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts.” Which, as a lover of both music
- [“Southern Cross” by C.F. Shushok](https://www.appalachiabare.com/southern-cross-by-c-f-shushok/) - the old men in this part of the world used to pass on tradition in rocking chairs father and son, mother and daughter believing they were immovable come hell or high water. but now there’s fire on the mountain and dirt on the grave the creeks a’risin and perhaps what we stand to lose was
- [The Eastern Grey Squirrel](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-eastern-grey-squirrel/) - My son and I sometimes meet a friend at the park and have lunch together. She’s as cute as a button. Here she is: We named her Chippy because the first time we saw her, she came to our picnic table and we fed her chips (baked, no salt).((For future reference, we should not feed
- ["Louis" by Kipper Evans](https://www.appalachiabare.com/louis-by-kipper-evans/) - From time to time, Appalachia Bare likes to spotlight some of our best submissions. "Louis" was written by talented storyteller, Kipper Evans, and was the Second Prize winner of Appalachia Bare's 2020 George Washington Harris Short Story Contest. We are proud to present this story for your enjoyment. Kipper Evans is a husband and
- ["I think myself as good as you." - Cahir O'Doherty's Rebellion](https://www.appalachiabare.com/i-think-myself-as-good-as-you-cahir-odohertys-rebellion/) - Welcome back to Part 2, the last of Appalachia Bare’s series about the Daugherty surname. Our focus here will mainly be on Sir Cahir Rue O’Doherty, the last Gaelic/ Irish Chieftain. Understandably, Cahir is not from Appalachia. But I remember something my grandmother once said to me: A Daugherty is a Daugherty. We're all kin. Just
- [“Deep Within” by Tony Baker](https://www.appalachiabare.com/deep-within-by-tony-baker/) - When you hook about a dozen fish the day seems bright and good until you hook that certain one that reels in like dead wood alarmed, anticipating, struggling to be free then after strength had worn quite thin simply trusting me, placing total trust in me to set him free I would have justified that
- [Sin Eater](https://www.appalachiabare.com/sin-eater/) - Glittering Eye by Gerald Metcalfe Fenwick
- [Mountain Justice, Moonshine, and Murder: A Lineage](https://www.appalachiabare.com/mountain-justice-moonshine-and-murder-a-lineage/) - One fine autumn day, a few months after my father passed away, my mother and I sat at the old cherrywood dining table and waxed nostalgic over old photographs. Like always, I soaked up every word and story, relishing even the stories I’ve heard over and over – about so and so who married that
- [Climate Rhythm Part II](https://www.appalachiabare.com/climate-rhythm-part-ii/) - . . . Climate change, by the very nature of the problem, is global in scale. Global change is the most complex issue facing humanity as a species – not as a system of government, not as a national debate, but as a threat to the future of organized human society. This is the defining issue
- [Climate Rhythm: Evidence of Change Along the Hiwassee River](https://www.appalachiabare.com/climate-rhythm-evidence-of-change-along-the-hiwassee-river/) - The loss of wild spaces happens slowly. An acre here, a hectare of deforestation there, is hardly noticeable day by day. As decades roll on, however, the loss of wilderness is vivid. Further, the global implications of this loss, as evident from the climate irregularities of this 21st century, are a constant in human life.
- [A Meditation on James Agee’s “Knoxville: Summer 1915” from A Death in the Family](https://www.appalachiabare.com/a-meditation-on-james-agees-knoxville-summer-1915-from-a-death-in-the-family/) - James Agee’s “Knoxville: Summer 1915” may arguably be the most beautiful prose poem in English. A prose poem is a hybrid sharing characteristics of both prose and poetry. A striking example would be the Old Testament book of Psalms found in the King James translation of the Bible. “Knoxville: Summer 1915” serves as the lyrical
- [Dead Without a Word:  The Mysterious Assassination of John Kincaid](https://www.appalachiabare.com/dead-without-a-word-the-mysterious-assassination-of-john-kincaid/) - Trigger Warning: Elements of this article include discussions of violence and slavery. Have you ever heard a story about an ancestor who did something so bad it became local legend? Or where half of a community considered that ancestor a hero and the other half believed that person was a miscreant? Join me on an
- [On Reading James Agee to My Students on Highland Avenue in Knoxville, Tennessee  (For Robert Coles)](https://www.appalachiabare.com/on-reading-james-agee-to-my-students-on-highland-avenue-in-knoxville-tennessee-for-robert-coles/) - Without a nod you give yourself to us Where hedges grew and trolleys screeched on track and you once played without a trace of fuss the swollen games of children back to back. A hump-backed sidewalk stretches at the seams. Here once James Agee woke from awkward sleep to find a father lost in all
- [Happiness: Is it still out there? by Jackie Eul](https://www.appalachiabare.com/happiness-is-it-still-out-there-by-jackie-eul/) - A global pandemic. A political world divided. Forest fires ablaze. Mental health at a rapid decline. And I want to talk about happiness? It seems impossible and complicated and always out of reach lately. To that, I ask: What do we have left? Half of “happiness” or mood is dependent on situation and disposition. If
- [Mary Ruden: An Exceptional Talent and Champion](https://www.appalachiabare.com/mary-ruden-an-exceptional-talent-and-champion/) - One rarely comes across an artist whose remarkable talents flow across a wide swath of multiple medias. Such is true of Mary Ruden – painter, sculptor, textile artist, illustrator, renovator, etc. She is a tireless champion of history and uses her artistic talents to promote and preserve antiquity. She masterfully captures the natural world with
- [“Untitled” by Lona Panter](https://www.appalachiabare.com/untitled-by-lona-panter/) - I just want to burn shit down, she says and her voice sounds like a child’s, even though she is forty-five She flicks a Bic at the grass, at each little blade that stands so stoically, at each little soldier cemented to the ground And I understood just how hard it was for her to
- [Coal Creek - Part 3 - Cross Mountain](https://www.appalachiabare.com/coal-creek-part-3-cross-mountain/) - The next part of our journey transports us on a cold December day to Briceville, Tennessee – just a hop, skip, and a jump away from Coal Creek. We arrive at the Cross Mountain mine almost ten years after the Fraterville mine disaster. Coal camps in Appalachia were cheerful in December. Christmas garland most likely
- [Ginseng: Man Root of the Mountains](https://www.appalachiabare.com/ginseng-man-root-of-the-mountains/) - **Please consult your physician before consuming ginseng or any other plant. Wild American ginseng (Panax Quinquefolius) is found in the eastern portion (mostly mountainous region) of the United States and Canada. Other nicknames for the plant are Five Finger (for its five leaflets), Red Berry, Man’s Health, and Man Root. Wonder of the World
- [Coal Creek - Part 2 - Fraterville](https://www.appalachiabare.com/coal-creek-part-2-fraterville/) - After the Coal Creek War, coalminers garnered a new respect, reclaimed their jobs and formed unions. Coal companies gained a skilled workforce and restructured the industry better than it was before convict-leasing. Families were relatively happy as normalcy and stability returned. Ten years after the Coal Creek War’s end, however, an uneasiness settled on the
- [“spring, 1981” by Brandon Michael Ward](https://www.appalachiabare.com/spring-1981-by-brandon-michael-ward/) - spring sun on red clay the team plows winter’s cold ground a hiss in the barn blackbird on the fence dirty boots sit by the door canned beans and warm bread still days grow longer in a flash of innocence nineteen eighty-one Brandon Michael Ward is a writer, filmmaker, and poet from East
- [A Trip to Cherokee, North Carolina](https://www.appalachiabare.com/a-trip-to-cherokee-north-carolina/) - Roadside Oconaluftee Islands Park Museum of the Cherokee Indian Cherokee Way of Life Pottery & Baskets Trail of Tears The Idea of "Civilized" Mountain Farm Museum **Featured Image is a wax representation of a Cherokee ceremony. ***All photographs were taken by Delonda Anderson
- [The Value of Outdoors and Taking Care of It by Madeline Walker](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-value-of-outdoors-and-taking-care-of-it-by-madeline-walker/) - I have found the outdoors to be the savior of my sanity, and not solely because I am an “outdoorsy” person. The truth is that science confirms the health and mental benefits of getting outside, yet many people in a modern, technologically advanced world seem to be missing out. Research shows simply going outside improves
- ["Grow Lavender for Luck Child" by Linda Hinkle](https://www.appalachiabare.com/grow-lavender-for-luck-child-by-linda-hinkle/) - From time to time, Appalachia Bare likes to spotlight some of our best submissions. "Grow Lavender for Luck Child" was written by talented storyteller, Linda Hinkle, and was the First Prize winner of Appalachia Bare's 2020 George Washington Harris Short Story Contest. We are proud to present this story for your enjoyment. Linda Hinkle
- [Out for Blood: Jenny Brooks and Her Boys](https://www.appalachiabare.com/out-for-blood-jenny-brooks-and-her-boys/) - **With Correction - Thank you, reader Linda, for helping to keep our Appalachian stories accurate! I came upon “Aunt Jenny” by doing a little research about paranormal events in Appalachian states. I was quite flabbergasted after reading her story. On one hand, she was a venomous and unforgiving woman (understandably so, as we’ll come to
- [Nancy Nanye'hi Ward -- Cherokee Warrior for Peace](https://www.appalachiabare.com/nancy-nanyehi-ward-cherokee-warrior-for-peace/) - While meandering through the Museum of Appalachia's treasure trove in Norris, Tennessee, I came across an exhibit encased in glass, and was intrigued by the words: She has been called: The Cherokee Chieftainess. The Pocahontas of the West, One of the Great Women in American History. In another section, I read the big, bold name of
- [Danita Dodson is Trailing the Azimuth](https://www.appalachiabare.com/danita-dodson-is-trailing-the-azimuth/) - **On a mobile format this book review is best viewed using landscape orientation. Danita Dodson is a contemplative, a mystic, and an alchemist whose feet are planted solidly in the turf of the natural world – particularly that of East Tennessee. As the poems in her debut collection, Trailing the Azimuth, attest, she is
- ["Mountain Woman in Four Seasons" by Danita Dodson](https://www.appalachiabare.com/mountain-woman-in-four-seasons-by-danita-dodson/) - During this Women's History Month, please join Appalachia Bare in congratulating Danita Dodson on her outstanding debut book of poetry, Trailing the Azimuth. The following is a poem selected from the book. Join us Thursday for a review of Dodson's book by our own Associate Editor, poet and litterateur, Edward Francisco. Mountain Woman in
- [Parading for History](https://www.appalachiabare.com/parading-for-history-by-mary-ruden/) - The Suffrage Coalition of Knoxville, Tennessee, has organized several parades to honor the history of women’s right to vote. The organization is headed by Wanda Sobieski, and is keeping that history alive. The parades are mainly held in downtown Knoxville. Women in white dresses with sashes wear hats and hold signs, and even carry life
- [Blossoms - Part Two](https://www.appalachiabare.com/blossoms-part-two/) - Autumn is the season of dying and death – but life, as in our own experience, carries on. Winter, to me, is the first season of life. In temperate zones, perennial plants, most notably trees, are asleep in winter. Thing is, a lot of infant vegetative color appears throughout the winter – stems, twigs, and
- [Blossoms - Part One](https://www.appalachiabare.com/blossoms-part-one/) - “I want to walk with Dada,” Eli announces. I smile to myself when I hear his little six-year-old voice. On this October day, a clear, expansive sky spreads across the land. My boy runs to me and takes my hand. Tall grass, gradually fading to brown in the autumn season, sways behind the breeze of
- [Fitness at Any Age by Wendy Guillaume](https://www.appalachiabare.com/fitness-at-any-age-by-wendy-guillaume/) - I have been moving my body my entire life. After all, our bodies are made to move. Unfortunately, in the quest to make life more convenient for ourselves it is very easy to get through a day without moving our bodies much at all. This phenomenon doesn’t discriminate and affects people of all ages. Not
- [Goat Man](https://www.appalachiabare.com/goat-man/) - We Southerners cherish our “characters” – eccentrics and outliers who intensify the spiciness of life. Take William Faulkner. To his neighbors in Oxford, Mississippi, Faulkner was “count no count,” a little bitty fellow who put on airs while sporting a limp and a cane and donning a cape for his morning walks around the town
- [Jesse Owens - "Smooth as the West Wind"](https://www.appalachiabare.com/jesse-owens-smooth-as-the-west-wind/) - Today, our journey begins in Appalachia’s Lawrence County, Alabama, where the mountains are more like hills, or, like a far-off friend reminding us, “I’m here.” Inside the county, the small town of Oakville boasts two outstanding parks and museums. One park is the Oakville Indian Mounds Park and Museum. The other is the Jesse Owens
- [“Homecoming” by Isabella Back](https://www.appalachiabare.com/homecoming-by-isabella-back/) - The cold creek water runs over my skin, baptismal in nature, it bends aroun’ the mountainside, banks muddy, water reflecting the darters’ scales and hogmollies, creek chubs and softshells. The muskrat makes his home
- [The Eviction](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-eviction/) - After they slid out of the rusty old Chevy, Amanda found it hard to keep up. She straggled on the concrete driveway behind her mother who held her baby brother as he tried desperately to worm his way out of her grip, all red-faced and wiggling, but the harder he tried, the more she tightened.
- [A Promised Land in Appalachia](https://www.appalachiabare.com/a-promised-land-in-appalachia/) - February is Black History Month. To honor that history, Appalachia Bare will endeavor to reveal the true tale of a Kingdom once nestled inside Appalachia’s beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. The story begins with a group of emancipated slaves who journeyed to find a place of their own and wound up in North Carolina. Though they
- [Rhythm: Kayak Adventure, Part 2](https://www.appalachiabare.com/rhythm-kayak-adventure-part-2/) - Past Cane Island, the river widens along a beautiful stretch of form and color. No words from either science or poetry, reason or romance, can do justice to the natural world around us. The sound is still – nothing but the rippling, bubbling current. Suddenly, the burble becomes a loud ovation as rapids quickly approach.
- [Rhythm: Kayak Adventure](https://www.appalachiabare.com/rhythm-kayak-adventure/) - The headwaters of the Hiwassee River emerge off the northern slopes of Rocky Mountain in Georgia’s Appalachian region. These waters crash and cascade into one another and build momentum as they travel northward across ancient altars of rock. The currents trickle through smoky Blue Ridge forests as they twist and turn on a long journey
- [You (for Linda)](https://www.appalachiabare.com/you-for-linda/) - Losing him at the instant of diagnosis, leaving no doubt in anyone’s mind but hers, his grandmother watched You wink from view until no more than a grainy dot on the horizon’s last glorious performance of the Great Withdrawal. The picture of a small girl insisting on her way this once, she stamped her foot
- [Editor's Poke 2022](https://www.appalachiabare.com/editors-poke-2022/) - The past year was certainly interesting. I hope the visits to Appalachia Bare have offered something special – a few laughs, a bit of knowledge, a good story or two, some remarkable poetry, amazing photographers, or amusement from our films. You may have noticed a few changes to the site. We do our best to
- [Mary Patton: Gunpowder Maker -- by Mary Ruden](https://www.appalachiabare.com/mary-patton-gunpowder-maker-by-mary-ruden/) - Mary McKeehan Patton was a gunpowder maker for the American Revolutionary War, in particular, the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780. Several monuments exist in East Tennessee that honor the Battle of Kings Mountain. A Veterans Monument in Elizabethton, Tennessee, mentions Mary Patton on a side of its obelisk-shaped tower. Kings Mountain Monument in Kings
- [A Happy Holiday Note](https://www.appalachiabare.com/a-happy-holiday-note/) - We here at Appalachia Bare hope the holiday season brought everyone warmth and togetherness. We wish all our readers, subscribers, and submitters a healthy, happy, safe New Year. Appalachia Bare will take a brief hiatus and will return January 18, 2022. We'll use this time to perform a little website maintenance and to strategize for
- [Mamaw's Grace by Carter Alden](https://www.appalachiabare.com/mamaws-grace-by-carter-alden/) - My mom loved to tell me stories of her childhood when I was young. It was not uncommon for her to call my name and ask the famous question, “Who do you want to hear about tonight?” It was a calming ritual for me, as I cuddled up next to her on the couch, she
- [Honorable Mention: "Giles county rapture" by Christian Shushok](https://www.appalachiabare.com/honorable-mention-giles-county-rapture-by-christian-shushok/) - A note from the poet: This poem was inspired by "Appalachian Elegy #6," a poem from a larger collection by the late Bell Hooks who passed away on December 16th. I wrote "Giles county rapture" before Ms. Hooks' untimely passing, and, in my most naïve moments, I had hoped that she might read it one
- [Honorable Mention: "Plain seeing" by M Thomas](https://www.appalachiabare.com/honorable-mention-plain-seeing-by-m-thomas/) - Plain seeing Flash, and the flatlander eye swoons with star glint and eardrum roaring crack, a copper spark in sight sounding It was everest over town’s end the thunderhead on high rising to ordovician climes Nearly alleghenies, still half atlas with shoulders lowered since the dislocating swell in pangaea’s heart Asked the eye to wander
- [Third Place Poem: "Poor Boy's Gospel" by Michael Bloodworth](https://www.appalachiabare.com/third-place-poem-poor-boys-gospel-by-michael-bloodworth/) - Poor Boy’s Gospel My dad died before I could kill him. I always imagined reading back his sins like Saint Peter. I’d reprimand his absence, scorn the idle time he’d wasted, and end with the two kids he’d failed the most. But by then, the man dead to me had overdosed. I never met him.
- [Second Place Poem: "Tennessee Red Cob" by Anna Laura Reeve](https://www.appalachiabare.com/second-place-poem-tennessee-red-cob-by-anna-laura-reeve/) - Tennessee Red Cob Grasping the bound ear with the heel of my left hand, I pierce the top shucks with both thumbs, punching open a slit. Dry husks rip with a groan and squeak as the great creamy teeth gleam. Another hard tug frees the whole magnificent horn of plenty. Dented kernels neatly aligned
- [The Brave: Honoring Korean War Veterans](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-brave-honoring-korean-war-veterans/) - Today has been National Korean War Armistice Day, where the nation remembers and honors Korean War veterans. The Koreas are situated smack dab in the middle between China, Russia, and Japan, and have been “caught up in their conflicts” for centuries. Japan controlled the country from around 1910 to 1945, when they surrendered and subsequently
- [First Place Poem: "grandmother" by Anna Pedigo](https://www.appalachiabare.com/first-place-poem-grandmother-by-anna-pedigo/) - grandmother she lived in that dirt and baking- soda soil, her drywood fingers cradling book pages gentle as if she were holding a bird, turning those well-worn wings, their songs rustle the living room curtains. her feet shuffled through breakfast with black coffee, and she napped late in the afternoon. i think of her curled
- [Announcing: Prizewinners for the George Scarbrough Poetry Contest](https://www.appalachiabare.com/announcing-prizewinners-for-the-george-scarbrough-poetry-contest/) - We commend everyone who participated in Appalachia Bare’s poetry contest. We received such phenomenal poetry, which made it quite challenging to make decisions – so much so that we have two Honorable Mentions. Without further ado, we announce the following George Scarbrough Poetry Contest winners: Prizewinners and Honorable Mentions First Place
- [Unexplained People - Appalachian Hauntings](https://www.appalachiabare.com/unexplained-people-appalachian-hauntings/) - We're continuing our ghostly series of Appalachian Hauntings. Enjoy the journey! Ohio Moonville Tunnel -- Vinton County Background: Moonville was a mining town back in the day, located just near the Maryville and Cincinnati (M&C) Railroad. The town began after a man named Samuel Coe made a deal with the railroad company. The Maryville
- [Contest Closed](https://www.appalachiabare.com/still-time-to-submit/) - The George Scarbrough Poetry Contest is now closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted such outstanding poetry! We certainly have challenging decisions ahead. Winners will be announced on the evening of Thursday, December 9. Good Luck and Best Wishes! ** Featured image by Voltamax on Pixabay
- [The George Scarbrough Poetry Contest](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-george-scarbrough-poetry-contest/) - Appalachian writers breathe words. Like meditation. They might gaze out the window, past that liminal space, and describe simple raindrops, circular, solid, and sparkling atop thick green leaves after a summer shower, each one a separate little universe, a micro-microcosm disturbed, perhaps, by a lone redbird landing abruptly on a limb or a bold, white
- [Historic Ramsey House](https://www.appalachiabare.com/historic-ramsey-house/) - Earlier this year, Appalachia Bare’s Tom Anderson attended a bare-hands baseball game hosted by the Historic Ramsey House. He wrote an article about the experience you can find here. Subsequently, Ramsey House invited us to cover the Celtic and Appalachian Music Festival. We felt so honored to be there. The Ramsey House graciously opened their
- [Veterans Day](https://www.appalachiabare.com/veterans-day/) - Appalachia Bare wishes a Happy Veterans Day to all our nation’s heroes and heroines. As a thank you, we would like to revisit some of our veteran-related posts. To access these writings, click on the images below. Kings Mountain World War I Korean War
- [Grateful](https://www.appalachiabare.com/grateful/) - Appalachia Bare would like to take this opportunity to thank our subscribers, readers, and viewers. We strive to bring unique content and stories that uncover the real Appalachia, and we’re so grateful for your interest. In the coming year, we’ll offer little gifts here and there for some of our subscribers along the way. We
- [Fit.Green.Happy.®️ by Bruce Guillaume](https://www.appalachiabare.com/fit-green-happy-️-by-bruce-guillaume/) - Appalachia Bare recently had the great pleasure of meeting Bruce Guillaume, founder of Mountain Challenge and Fit.Green.Happy.®️, and we discovered a common interest in our deep love for the Appalachian Mountains and her people, in a commitment to environmental sustainability, and in the belief that outdoor ventures administer a prescription for health and happiness. Bruce
- ["As if they are not welcome" - Appalachian Hauntings](https://www.appalachiabare.com/as-if-they-are-not-welcome-appalachian-hauntings-3/) - New York Lily Dale – Chautauqua County Background: Lily Dale is a spiritualist community allegedly built on supernatural ground. The town was founded in 1879 by William Alden and his family who hosted spiritual picnics and small gatherings on the land.((Fortmiller, Sandra P. 2006. "A 'Dale' By Any Other Name." National Spiritualist Association of
- [Mabon: Autumn Equinox (an occult poem)](https://www.appalachiabare.com/mabon-autumn-equinox-an-occult-poem/) - Pears and figs pregnant and poised to drop – all but a few hangers-on tendering pulpy flesh for sacramental consumption construed as high magic from remotest times. Tonight an awakening amid yawning oaks, one, a three-headed high priest cloven by lightning, presiding over a ceremony feting one-third of the fallen diadems and the creatures that
- [Bees & Bugs & Springtime in Fall](https://www.appalachiabare.com/bees-bugs-springtime-in-fall/) - Photographs were taken at: Seven Islands State Birding Park, Historic Ramsey House, Gabriel's Garden (my home), Elkmont
- [Quarantine - Part 2](https://www.appalachiabare.com/quarantine-part-2/) - In reflection, over the past two decades, the global human population has witnessed three novel coronaviruses emerge and cause outbreaks with considerable health consternation. Further, all outbreaks (likely) have a zoonotic origin, or, diseases that spread from animals to humans. The question begs to be asked: Why? III. Scientists who study how diseases emerge have
- [Quarantine - Part 1](https://www.appalachiabare.com/quarantine-part-1/) - I. An August shower pours through the forest. Rainwater still drips from rattling leaves as a glowing mist shines fair in the morning light. The sun is just again peeking through the leafy boughs. Beaming rays illuminate the water-quenched dance of the soft, green canopy. Droplets bead and splash to the understory from tulip-trees, yellow
- ["He thought he heard a scream" - Appalachian Hauntings](https://www.appalachiabare.com/he-thought-he-heard-a-scream-appalachian-hauntings/) - Welcome to our continuing series about Appalachian hauntings. In this post, we'll be journeying to Georgia, Kentucky, and Mississippi. Enjoy the history and the goose bumps. Georgia Barnsley Gardens – Bartow County Background: Godfrey Barnsley (1805-1873) was an Englishman who came to America in 1824 and soon became one of the richest cotton barons in
- ["If you kill me, I will haunt you" - Appalachian Hauntings](https://www.appalachiabare.com/if-you-kill-me-i-will-haunt-you-appalachian-hauntings/) - Hauntings are everywhere in the Appalachian Mountains. Whether one believes in such things or not, a person cannot deny the shivers in the darkness when an owl hoots a soothing sound of wisdom, or the early morning sounds of a house "settling" as it pops and cracks at one end of the house while you're
- [Tiger, Plain to See by Sheree Shatsky](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tiger-plain-to-see-by-sheree-shatsky/) - -1- The locals of Orem Crossroads don’t need a calendar to know when July rolls around. Snails shed their shells in the triple digit heat and Jane mows her yard every Wednesday wearing her best house dress, the floral long-sleeved cotton, cinched at the waist. She sweeps her silver hair up into a messy topknot
- [Appalachian Grit](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachian-grit/) - I love Autumn and Winter. I love the trees’ rustic changing colors and the crisp, cool temperatures, abated by a snuggly fleece throw and a cup of hot chocolate. I love the greater sense of my ancestors as the veil thins. I love wooly worms and pumpkin patches and bonfires. I love harvest time and
- [A Century's Kindness](https://www.appalachiabare.com/a-centurys-kindness/) - The alarm blared and the Governor’s eyes snapped awake in the darkness. No time to dillydally today. He picked up his phone, swiped upward, and turned off the alert. He lay there for a moment with his thoughts floating . . . floating . . . until they congealed into more solid flashes of the
- [Stroll](https://www.appalachiabare.com/stroll/) - Stroll (For Henry) The sidewalk, his nursery. The stroller, his crib. Together my grandson and I cruise the Low Country bejeweled in dew after last night’s downpour. Our gentle jostle over humpbacked pavement signals our arrival. We attract a following: first, a neighbor woman rushing across the street to catch a glimpse of him: “He’s
- [George Scarbrough - Poet in the Vale](https://www.appalachiabare.com/george-scarbrough-poet-in-the-vale/) - "Only one thing in my life has been constant: my interest in words. I should say “devotion” to words – for it has been a devotion, rarely known, I suspect, except among the more megalomaniacally linguistic lovers who have always come to people by way of words rather than the reverse."((Mackin, Randy. 2011. George Scarbrough,
- [Sarah Louise - Earth Bow](https://www.appalachiabare.com/sarah-louise-earth-bow/) - In early March, Appalachia Bare received an email announcing the upcoming album release of Earth Bow (available at Bandcamp.com) by Sarah Louise, a musician from the Asheville, North Carolina, area. I must admit that prior to this email, I was largely unfamiliar with her work. But the email and this album have opened wonderful new
- [Classic Appalachian Blues - A Music Review by Tom Anderson](https://www.appalachiabare.com/classic-appalachian-blues-a-music-review-by-tom-anderson/) - I was born with a love for music – a gift from my parents. It runs throughout both sides of my family with music of one kind or another ever-present in our home, on records, tapes, CDs, the radio, or my dad’s singing. As a matter of fact, I inherited my singing voice from my
- [Picnic, Moonside by Emmalee Hunnicutt](https://www.appalachiabare.com/picnic-moonside-by-emmalee-hunnicutt/) - Arts and artists throughout Appalachia have a strong connection to the land. That connection is expressed in diverse ways, sometimes overt and intentional, and other times more subtle, like an undercurrent. The music of Appalachia, especially Southern Appalachia, is no different. Usually, when one thinks of “Appalachian music” the mind turns to bluegrass and blues,
- [Grandfather Raised a Little Cane](https://www.appalachiabare.com/grandfather-raised-a-little-cane/) - For generations, my mother’s family were bootleggers all the way down to my great grandfather, a grizzled, old man with a withered arm who constantly chewed tobacco and who was always licking the little reservoirs of brown tobacco juice that gathered at the corners of his mouth. Despite his appearance, he was the most popular
- [Ancient Sounds: The Celtic and Appalachian Music Festival at Ramsey House](https://www.appalachiabare.com/ancient-sounds-the-celtic-and-appalachian-music-festival-at-ramsey-house/) - The Ramsey House recently invited Appalachia Bare to attend their annual Celtic and Appalachian Music Festival. So, we packed our modest gear, threw in a few lawn chairs, and headed that way. The event was held underneath a large tent, sheltered from sun and/or rain. Food trucks were on hand, ready to prepare orders, and
- [Appalachia - How Do You Say It?](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachia-how-do-you-say-it/) - I have a few pronunciation pet peeves. My language grievances may sound sanctimonious, especially to some folks who view Appalachian English as everything “un” – uncouth, unsophisticated, and uncivilized. Nevertheless, I cringe every time I hear: “I axed a question,” or, “He excaped through the window.” I’ll add to these grievances the pronunciation for our
- [“Look Ma, no glove!” – The Tennessee Association of Vintage Base Ball](https://www.appalachiabare.com/look-ma-no-glove-the-tennessee-association-of-vintage-base-ball/) - Emmett Machinists of Knoxville vs. the Quicksteps of Spring Hill Though the Saturday afternoon in August was hot and sunny at the Historic Ramsey House in Knoxville, Tennessee,((The Ramsey House was built in 1797 for Col. Francis A. Ramsey, the patriarch of one of Knoxville’s early prominent families.)) the weather was really quite pleasant in
- [Unveiling a Suffragette -- Lizzie Crozier French Historical Marker](https://www.appalachiabare.com/unveiling-a-suffragette-lizzie-crozier-french-historical-marker/) - Professional sculptor and mixed media artist Mary Ruden recently invited Appalachia Bare to attend the historical marker unveiling for suffragette Lizzie Crozier French. Our Admin, Tom Anderson and I stepped into Knoxville Tennessee’s Old Gray Cemetery and were greeted by a wonderful group of individuals, many wearing suffragette white. Mary Ruden graciously offered us a
- [Settling the Score](https://www.appalachiabare.com/settling-the-score/) - Just once I’d like to hear a criminal invoke something besides the “withem” defense, an accused’s way of explaining that he didn’t actually commit a crime but was in the vicinity of those who did and was technically “with ‘em.” I also wish it was illegal for a client to lie to his attorney. I’m
- [Hidden Scandal: a Woman, a Gun, and a President](https://www.appalachiabare.com/hidden-scandal-a-woman-a-gun-and-a-president/) - Some years ago, my family and I visited former president Andrew Johnson’s home in Greeneville, Tennessee. The tour was interesting, as all historical places are, but I felt a heavy presence throughout the house. Perhaps that feeling had something to do with a sort of transposed shame that Andrew Johnson was a Tennessean, the first
- [Dandelion: "The Little Plant That Roars"](https://www.appalachiabare.com/dandelion-the-little-plant-that-roars/) - How many of us when we were children, and, for some of us even as adults (ahem), have done this: We often overlook this widespread flower powerhouse. But the dandelion is an impressive and beneficial plant with quite an interesting history. Join Appalachia Bare as we unearth the dandelion – “The Little Plant That Roars.”((Zak,
- ["They're All My Brothers" - Part 2 of Our Southern Sons Exclusive](https://www.appalachiabare.com/theyre-all-my-brothers-part-2-of-our-southern-sons-exclusive/) - Welcome back to the second part of Appalachia Bare's exclusive information gathering from "Rider," an old time member of the Southern Sons. We took a little pit stop for a few nights and now we're heading down the valley toward our destination. Gear buckled, helmet fastened, let's crank up that engine and let Rider lead
- ["They're All My Brothers" - A Southern Sons Exclusive](https://www.appalachiabare.com/theyre-all-my-brothers-a-southern-sons-exclusive/) - Things happen at night in the holler. Bad things. Of course, that goes for big cities, too. But we all know hollers have no street lights or city lights and nighttime is pitch-black along those meandering dirt roads. Nightfall covers a multitude of sins like a cozy patchwork blanket. It’s true, I think, what the
- [Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center by Courtney Shea](https://www.appalachiabare.com/narrow-ridge-earth-literacy-center-by-courtney-shea/) - The dream of Narrow Ridge started in the late 1960s and began to approach a reality in 1972 when founder Bill Nickle purchased 40 acres of steep mountain land in the Hogskin Valley area of Grainger County, Tennessee. With roots in the philosophy of Martin Buber and others, Bill’s initial vision was based on his
- [Review of Chris Offutt’s The Killing Hills](https://www.appalachiabare.com/review-of-chris-offutts-the-killing-hills/) - Chris Offutt is a Kentucky novelist who lives in Oxford, Mississippi, while teaching in the English department at Ole Miss. He is arguably best known for his memoir, My Father, the Pornographer (Simon and Schuster, 2015). Offutt describes how his father and mother collaborated in writing pornography in order to put food on the table
- [2021 Pro Road National Championships - A Trent Eades Gallery](https://www.appalachiabare.com/2021-pro-road-national-championships-a-trent-eades-gallery/) - Criterium “As a rider, you have to have a certain set of skills in order to navigate a criterium. You must have the ability to corner rapidly and sharply, with as little touching of your fellow riders as possible, holding your line on the road. In order to claim the best position, you have to
- [The South's Weather(s)](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-souths-weathers/) - Before global warming and ominous signs that Earth will eventually combust in an end-time fireball, the American South satisfied all the requirements of heat demanded by hell. The way weather affects the region’s inhabitants has been a subject of discussion for centuries. In the 1800s, visitors from the North and from Europe wondered whether heat
- [Appalachia Bare's Photo Galleries: Our Picks](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachia-bares-photo-galleries-our-picks/) - Enjoy some of our favorite submitted images from Trent Eades, Jim Clark, John Allyn Miller, and Erik Bathe. Click on the gallery names for more stunning photographs from these talented photographers. Trent Eades Trent Eades Gallery Mardi Growl Going Medieval in Appalachia Jim Clark After the Fall Jim Clark Gallery
- [Waterfall Journeys - an Erik Bathe Gallery](https://www.appalachiabare.com/waterfall-journeys-an-erik-bathe-gallery/) - Erik Bathe is from Newton, North Carolina and teaches 8th grade math at Heritage Middle School in Valdese, NC. His hobbies include hiking, fishing and spending time outside.
- [The Fonta Flora State Trail: An Erik Bathe Gallery](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-fonta-flora-state-trail-an-erik-bathe-gallery/) - I recently took a walk/hike through finished portions of the Fonta Flora State Trail in Burke County, North Carolina. The trail is named after the local Fonta Flora settlement of African-American sharecroppers whose homes were flooded when the Catawba River was dammed to create Lake James. I started the walk from Linville Access Area and
- [Capturing North Carolina - An Erik Bathe Gallery](https://www.appalachiabare.com/capturing-north-carolina-an-erik-bathe-gallery/)
- [Arboretum Prowl - A Jim Clark Gallery](https://www.appalachiabare.com/arboretum-prowl-a-jim-clark-gallery/) - Nestled south of Asheville, next to the Blue Ridge Parkway in the Bent Creek Experimental Forest, The North Carolina Arboretum’s gardens and wooded trails are one of my favorite photo hunting grounds. Each visit reveals new subjects and new perspectives. During the winter holiday season, the gardens are bedecked in a “Winter Lights” display, elaborate
- [Mardi Growl Knoxville, Tennessee - A Trent Eades Gallery](https://www.appalachiabare.com/mardi-growl-in-knoxville-tennessee-a-trent-eades-gallery/) - For the past dozen years, the Young-Williams Animal Center has sponsored a Mardi Growl Parade and Festival in downtown Knoxville. Hundreds of dogs in costume are paraded by their owners to raise funds to support the efforts of the Young-Williams Animal Center, which seeks to find a home for every unwanted pet.
- [Trent Eades Gallery](https://www.appalachiabare.com/trent-eades-gallery/) - Trent Eades is a journalist, photographer, and educator based in Knoxville, Tennessee. His interests include Greek Philosophy, Medieval and Renaissance Literature, and Science Fiction. He's never enjoyed long walks in the rain but is adept at short sprints through heavy downpours. When he's not teaching writing and literature to students, who may or may not
- [After the Fall](https://www.appalachiabare.com/after-the-fall-by-jim-clark/) - October is peak leaf season in Asheville and the burst of colors brings a flood of tourists to the Blue Ridge Parkway. Long after the trees are denuded and the tourists have ebbed, beautiful leaves are still here. Many are scattered in forest nooks and crannies, like fallen soldiers after a battle. A closer look reveals vibrant
- [Perspectives](https://www.appalachiabare.com/perspectives/) - Appalachia Bare Photo Gallery **Featured Image, "Peeping" - All photographs by Delonda Anderson
- [Tennessee Williams and His Appalachian Pedigree](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tennessee-williams-and-his-appalachian-pedigree/) - Tennessee Williams was one of the foremost playwrights in the 20th century. He wrote close to 40 plays, 70 one-act plays, and several screenplays, achieving great success with The Glass Menagerie (1944), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947; Pulitzer Prize winner), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955; Pulitzer Prize winner), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959),
- ["We Heard Bugles Blowin'" - Appalachian Slave Narratives](https://www.appalachiabare.com/we-heard-bugles-blowin-appalachian-slave-narratives/) - Welcome to the second and final posting of Appalachian slave narratives capturing individual responses regarding freedom. You'll find part one here. Visit the following sources for more extensive and wide ranging interviews: Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936 to 1938 – Library of Congress Slave narratives – Project Gutenberg North American Slave Narratives – Documenting the
- ["When Freedom Come" - Appalachian Slave Narratives](https://www.appalachiabare.com/when-freedom-come-appalachian-slave-narratives/) - How many of us in Appalachia have heard: “Appalachia didn’t have any slaves.” “Slavery wasn’t popular here in the mountains.” “They couldn’t have any slaves here because the land wasn’t conducive for farming.” “If we had slaves, there weren’t very many.” But Appalachia did indeed have slaves. Jacqueline Clark’s article “Slavery in Appalachia: The Hidden
- [Your Stories:  A Call for Submissions](https://www.appalachiabare.com/your-stories-a-call-for-submissions/) - My old, second-hand file cabinet bit the dust. I purchased it at an indoor flea market for about 25 dollars. One day, I opened the bottom drawer and it teetered near collapse. An Office Depot trip was inevitable. But, before replacing the old one, I made sure no documents scooted their way in the crevices.
- [Untamed Hours](https://www.appalachiabare.com/untamed-hours/) - Capturing a misty Blue Ridge morning, we scuttled uphill, down dale, taking up trails, traipsing through dew-covered fields, and slipped off, passing untamed hours of existence. We rested near calm lakes roused by walleye’s sporadic splash, or bluegill’s breath bubbles or striders atop the water or dew-dripped sprinkles pit-patting a cappella. We walked by wild
- [Muddy Waters by April Sharp](https://www.appalachiabare.com/muddy-waters-by-april-sharp/) - I am from the muddy brown waters of the Muskingum River. It is a place I cannot hide from the truth of myself – where lies burn away like sins on an altar. I am both pulled to and pushed away from its borders. The small Appalachian town raised me as much as any person
- [Hell of a Honeymoon](https://www.appalachiabare.com/hell-of-a-honeymoon/) - Sometimes things happen that just beggar belief – not the muddled-up head-scratching kind, but the holy-crap-get-me-outta-here kind. A person starts to think in terms of that old cliché: "This could only happen to me." The following events occurred over eleven years ago and are as truthful as I can recollect, even the dialogue, mostly because
- [Wild Ginger](https://www.appalachiabare.com/wild-ginger/) - When I was a little girl living in the holler, I took special note of plants my parents loved. They often pointed out wildflowers, trees, vines, shrubs, and grasses, etc. The wisdom they imparted was such a treat, because, in addition to a little botanical information, my brother and I were often endowed with ancestral
- [Flashback in Time IV](https://www.appalachiabare.com/flashback-in-time-iv/) - Appalachia Bare would like to thank all our military and service members. This Memorial Day, we remember and honor all those who served and fought for our country. Our warriors in valor, strength, and excellence . . . The following is the fourth excerpt of Benny F. Shown Sr.'s memoirs about his time in Vietnam
- ["Little Chicago" - Johnson City, Tennessee & Al Capone](https://www.appalachiabare.com/little-chicago-johnson-city-tennessee-al-capone/) - “I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.” – Al Capone Introduction Perhaps the nation should have looked closer at a Tennessee precedent before Prohibition was ratified in 1919. Tennessee was
- [Pearl Bales: Money of her Own - A Gatlinburg Story by Stephen Lyn Bales](https://www.appalachiabare.com/pearl-bales-money-of-her-own-a-gatlinburg-story-by-stephen-lyn-bales/) - The “back of beyond!” Writing from North Carolina, that’s what Horace Kephart called the Tennessee side of the Great Smokies. It was nearly impossible to get there in his day and a stingy place to scratch out a living. Kephart wrote about that dark side of the Smokies in his book Our Southern Highlanders. Originally
- [Kin Takahashi - A Mission of Service](https://www.appalachiabare.com/kin-takahashi-a-mission-of-service/) - Kin Takahashi was a five-feet-two-inch, 123-pound ball of joyous energy whose fire burned brightly for only thirty-six short years. But Mr. Takahashi shared his energy with all those around him willingly and without hesitation. It could be said that his life was so brief because he gave everything of himself, serving his fellow human beings
- [The Hmong - The Best and More](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-hmong-the-best-and-more/) - I am the daughter of a Vietnam Veteran. My father, Benny F. Shown, Sr., served honorably from 1967-1968 with Second Platoon in B Battery of the 29th Artillery. He served with the First Air Cavalry Division, various infantry units, and, in some cases, with Special Forces. He rarely spoke about his tour of duty. When
- [Taking Out the White Trash: the Plight of Poor Whites in America](https://www.appalachiabare.com/taking-out-the-white-trash-the-plight-of-poor-whites-in-america/) - White trash have been with us since colonial times – though they often went by other names. That’s the contention of historian Nancy Isenberg in White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. Isenberg also destroys assumptions about America’s allegedly class-free society in which all one needed were liberty and hard work to
- [Tuckaleechee Caverns](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tuckaleechee-caverns/) - On a rainy day in late March our family decided we needed a day in the Smokies, or, to be more precise, under them. Our destination was Tuckaleechee Caverns in Townsend, Tennessee, about 25 miles south of Knoxville. The word Tuckaleechee is derived from the Cherokee word, Tikwalitsi (original meaning unknown). The 20-to-30-million-year-old caverns are
- [Beatrice, Princess of the Feeders](https://www.appalachiabare.com/beatrice-princess-of-the-feeders/) - King Frederick flashed his old, worried eyes at the queen as they stood beside an ornate wooden bed where the chalky Prince Laverlier lay. The young man’s condition was a mystery to the day’s conventional physicians. The prince had been bled, burned, and poulticed half to death, but, alas, nothing worked. He grew paler each
- [Maryville College](https://www.appalachiabare.com/maryville-college/) - Mountains are in my blood. I spent my early childhood in the Appalachian Mountains of Western Pennsylvania while my extended family was (and still is) out West. My people hail from the mountainous region of Northwestern Oregon’s Willamette Valley, down the Pacific Coast Range all the way to San Diego. Our family spent many happy
- [The George Washington Harris Short Story Contest Winners!](https://www.appalachiabare.com/winners-of-the-george-washington-harris-short-story-contest/) - Appalachia Bare is proud to announce the winners of our George Washington Harris Short Story Contest. We want to thank all those who entered the contest. We found it a joy to read everyone’s work. Each exceptional story is woven so admirably and our decisions were reached with painstaking considerations. All your voices are vital
- [The Blood of Dochartach](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-blood-of-dochartach/) - Like just about everyone else in this region (and across the nation), I am a conglomeration of peoples. I am Irish, Scottish (Scots-Irish (Scotch-Irish)), German, English, Dutch, French, Swiss, Bohemian, Melungeon, and I could go on. The earliest known existence for any of my ancestors in this region was a Virginia birth in 1664. Several
- ["God's Lonely Man" - The Thomas Wolfe Memorial](https://www.appalachiabare.com/gods-lonely-man-the-thomas-wolfe-memorial/) - At the end of February, we packed our bags (masks, sanitizer, and alcohol spray included) and took a daytrip to downtown Asheville, North Carolina, to visit the Thomas Wolfe Memorial, honoring the Appalachian writer, novelist, playwright, and poet, Thomas Wolfe. We took the scenic route on 25-W and it was a gorgeous drive through the
- [Appalachian English Quiz 3 - Answers](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachian-english-quiz-3-answers/) - Check out the following answers for Appalachian English Quiz 3. Appalachia Bare works to provide the best available answers, with the understanding that some words are said or meant differently in various Appalachian regions. Let us know in the comments if other meanings for these words exist. The following dictionaries were used: Oxford English Dictionary
- [Eating Appalachia 1975](https://www.appalachiabare.com/eating-appalachia-1975/) - He presses down the pedal as he hastens through the holler, screeching around swerving curves before They take the Valiant like they took the old Fury and the houses on Job Street, on Love Street, and Food Street. Daddy yaks Valiant and Vietnam. Mama answers so and so. Little Brother and I assemble at attention,
- [John Allyn Miller Gallery](https://www.appalachiabare.com/john-allyn-miller-gallery/) - John Allyn Miller (1947 - 2007) lived in the Asheville area from the 1970s until 2002. He was an outdoorsman who loved being in nature, wandering backroads, trails, and streams in hopes of capturing the iconic beauty and images of Appalachia. John taught photography at Asheville-Biltmore Technical School. He worked for and
- [Stitches In Time - by Jim Clark](https://www.appalachiabare.com/stitches-in-time-by-jim-clark/) - The Appalachian wilds offer outdoor enthusiasts a wide variety of adventures, from leisurely hikes to hair-raising white-water kayaking. When the stakes go up, the costs of making a mistake rise too, as many less skillful partakers know well. I have on multiple outings literally “put some skin into the game.” Inspired by the four occasions*
- [Jim Clark Gallery](https://www.appalachiabare.com/jim-clark-gallery/) - According to the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), Appalachia “is a 205,000-square-mile region that follows the spine of the Appalachian Mountains from southern New York to northern Mississippi. It includes all of West Virginia and parts of twelve other states: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia
- [Appalachian English Quiz 3](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachian-english-quiz-3/) - One day, I’d just hung up the phone after talking with my mother, and my oldest son asked, “Mom, how come you talk different when you’re on the phone with Mammaw?” “Do I?” I asked, puzzled. My youngest son chimed in, “Yeah. You do. You talk more country. It’s weird.” I have to tell you
- [Appalachian Women in Film: An Archetypal Analysis](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachian-women-in-film-an-archetypal-analysis/) - Archetypes are essential to a deeper understanding and appreciation of film and literature. Popularized by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung in the early 20th century, the word archetype is defined as a recurring symbol or motif found in traditional storytelling. This definition particularly refers to the recurrence of characters and plots sharing similar traits in various
- [How Buddhism Saved My Life by Heather Lee Schroeder](https://www.appalachiabare.com/how-buddhism-saved-my-life-by-heather-lee-schroeder/) - I’m a bad Buddhist. I lead with that statement when describing my spiritual practice because claiming Buddhism as one’s spiritual path often leads to the inevitable questions (or jokes) about enlightenment or the assumption that I have an outsized well of patience and wisdom. Neither of these things are true about me. I am not
- [Caravansary of Sound and Light: Universal Sufism – Part 2 – by Qudsiyah Gray](https://www.appalachiabare.com/caravansary-of-sound-and-light-universal-sufism-part-2-by-qudsiyah-gray/) - My first “spiritual” teacher arrived simultaneous to the literary discoveries. Anything but spiritual and much older, he drew me at nineteen into a long and difficult entanglement, a liaison lasting years that would, these days, set off all the #MeToo sirens. The sum of it was traumatizing, but there were moments of illumination. Once, on
- [Caravansary of Sound and Light: Universal Sufism - Part 1 - by Qudsiyah Gray](https://www.appalachiabare.com/caravansary-of-sound-and-light-universal-sufism-part-1-by-qudsiyah-gray/) - Writing about fifteen years of practicing Universal Sufism gives me pause. For one, keeping personal matters personal--a tacit cultural feature of this region--seems polite and practical. Especially with spiritual matters, staying mum averts misunderstandings. Another reason I hesitate is that the essence of Sufism, an ancient form of mysticism, is famously difficult to capture in
- ["Unwomanly Actions" in Appalachia's Labor Movement](https://www.appalachiabare.com/unwomanly-actions-in-appalachias-labor-movement/) - I Appalachian women are, arguably, the most unacknowledged and undervalued segment of our region. But . . . that fact wasn’t always so, particularly in the matriarchal Cherokee tribe, where lineage was matrilineal (meaning the descent was determined through the female line), and where women were completely independent. They could divorce and hold ownership. They
- [The Brilliant but Troubled Anna Catherine Wiley](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-brilliant-but-troubled-anna-catherine-wiley/) - A few years ago, I visited the Coal Creek Miners Museum in Rocky Top (formerly Lake City, formerly Coal Creek), Anderson County, Tennessee. The facility provides a historical glimpse into the lives of coal miners in the Fraterville and Briceville mines, particularly from the late 1800s to the 1930s. The museum houses a variety of
- [The Union by Isabella Back](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-union-by-isabella-back/) - Sara filled the air with a pitiful cry, from somewhere deep inside her chest, that even made her daddy misty-eyed. She clutched her yellow dog, Milly, around the neck, refusing to let go, and, when Daddy put his hands on her shoulder, she tightened her embrace. Milly’s body was cold, despite the warm sun, and,
- [That Old Time Religion](https://www.appalachiabare.com/that-old-time-religion/) - I have been out of the broom closet for a while now, as it were. Once in a while friends will reach out and enquire about my Pagan ways and practices. Yesterday I received a Facebook message from a good friend. She had read a news report about a woman who called herself a Wiccan,
- [The Gutsy Lizzie Crozier French](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-gutsy-lizzie-crozier-french/) - When someone reflects on Women’s suffrage in the United States, that person might recognize women like Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, or Alice Paul. Here in Appalachia, however, we had our own heroine who worked tirelessly for women’s rights and issues. This Women’s History Month, Appalachia Bare is recognizing her. Lizzie Crozier
- [Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachian-reckoning-a-region-responds-to-hillbilly-elegy/) - People wondering what all the fuss is about concerning J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy and Ron Howard’s screen adaptation of the book will find answers to that query in Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy, a series of essays by diverse voices about a variety of topics bringing Appalachia to the forefront of national
- [Trailblazing and Tenacious - The Extraordinary Tanners Part 3](https://www.appalachiabare.com/trailblazing-and-tenacious-the-extraordinary-tanners-part-3/) - We’ve come to the third and final post in a series about the Extraordinary Tanner family (See posts one and two.). Today, we’ll meet the trailblazing, tenacious Tanner women, who were exceptionally intelligent and highly successful in a time when women, especially African American women, weren’t afforded serious education or recognition or titles. Join me
- [Captain Ed's Vinyl Voyage](https://www.appalachiabare.com/captain-eds-vinyl-voyage/) - I’ve been friends with Ed McDaniel (aka Captain Ed) for over ten years. We met working in Facilities Services at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. We are union members of United Campus Workers (UCW), which we both were privileged to serve as Local President. We’ve spent a fair amount of time in cars, buses, conferences,
- [Where the Lilies Bloom](https://www.appalachiabare.com/where-the-lilies-bloom/) - Two kinds of hollows exist in the mountains. The first kind is the nice, pleasant, winding road that leads to a lake or park out in the boonies. The second kind is an offshoot from that nice road and it snakes down into a deep, dark holler. I grew up in the second kind, a
- [Greatness: The Extraordinary Tanners Part 2](https://www.appalachiabare.com/greatness-the-extraordinary-tanners-part-2/) - Welcome to Part 2 of our three-part series about the Extraordinary Tanners. Today’s post centers on Henry and Carlton Tanner, sons of Benjamin and Sarah Tanner. We'll meet younger son, Carlton, first. Though he wasn’t technically born in Appalachia, his parents were, and his story is significant to present the lives and talents of this
- [Before Dawn](https://www.appalachiabare.com/before-dawn/) - Our evening was cooler than expected. A quick but fierce thunderstorm moved through our late July afternoon that day, complete with loud rolling booms, cracks of lightning, and a torrent of falling water. On the northern Appalachian Trail, among the beech, maple, and birch-covered Green Mountains of Vermont, our camping crew huddled closely together in
- [The Extraordinary Tanners](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-extraordinary-tanners/) - I’ve seen the painting above, The Thankful Poor, for most of my life in various places and circles. Lately, I was curious to find the artist of such a stirring, spiritual piece, so, I googled it. The artist is Appalachia’s own Henry Ossawa Tanner, born in Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on June 21, 1859. I
- [How to Outfox a Fox](https://www.appalachiabare.com/how-to-outfox-a-fox/) - Etta Langdon sat cradling her baby at a table on the back porch. In the distance, truck tires crunched atop gravel to a slow halt, and, after a few minutes, the driver's side door groaned open and slammed shut. Reed had come home from his construction job. Etta grinned, wide and impish, then picked up
- [Protection](https://www.appalachiabare.com/protection/) - Protection Bricking the house against the happy jaws of wolves, my father and his tawny hired man, backs drawn deep in conspiracy, slapped mortar onto trowels, eyes migrating to as distance beyond clouds. Heat swam around them, requiring the huge delusion of some believable project to produce it. Neither spoke but nodded in words at
- [Kincaid Vengeance](https://www.appalachiabare.com/kincaid-vengeance/) - As we discovered in the previous post, “Dead Without a Word: The Mysterious Assassination of John Kincaid,” John Kincaid II was a fierce advocate for the Confederacy during the Civil War. After his death, he was considered a martyr to some and a malefactor to others. His sons also fought for the Confederacy: Benjamin ,
- [Lost and Found Poems:  George Scarbrough](https://www.appalachiabare.com/lost-and-found-poems-george-scarbrough/) - While sifting through his library the other day, our own Edward Francisco found this gifted poem (below) written by George Scarbrough entitled "The Kitchen." The Kitchen Broad planks laid on the raw clay Composed the floor. Some had cupped At edges, others at ends, so one made A higgledy-piggledy journey from stove To table.
- [Kings Mountain](https://www.appalachiabare.com/kings-mountain/) - Here in 2020, odd year it is, we’ve canceled everything. Like the rest of the world, our usual day by day is not our normal day by day anymore. Today is kind of an odd one, though, because I’m on the road. I’m taking a mini vacation of sorts. To get out of the worrisome,
- [Editor's Poke](https://www.appalachiabare.com/editors-poke/) - Hello readers and all curious folks. Appalachia Bare is back and eager to deliver new content! We’ve made some subtle (and not-so-subtle) changes to the site but still kept our Appalachian charm. I thought I’d take a little time and share our intentions for 2021. I say intentions because nothing’s set in stone, per say,
- [Season's Greetings From Appalachia Bare!](https://www.appalachiabare.com/seasons-greetings-from-appalachia-bare/) - All of us at Appalachia Bare would like to wish our readers a happy, safe, and healthy holiday season. We're so grateful for your continuing interest and support. We'll be taking a short break for the holiday season and will return with new content on January 14, 2021. During this time away, Appalachia Bare will
- [You Cain't Whup a Bear](https://www.appalachiabare.com/you-caint-whup-a-bear/) - It started as a lark. Six of us guys sat watching TV one evening in our college dormitory lobby. Someone absently picked up a copy of the local newspaper lying on the sofa. “Hey, here’s something we can do,” Joe M. announced. (Names are abbreviated to protect the chronically stupid.) “Doesn’t anyone want to know
- [The Last Light by Ryan McGill](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-last-light-by-ryan-mcgill/) - He was pale. Wrapped in a stark white blanket, cold and blind. The mother lay, one leg uncovered on top of the sheet, sweat dried along her forehead, resting from some sixteen hours. The child un-held. There was a father, outside in the desert cold, smoking. A witness to what seemed like everything. The child
- [Our Gratitude](https://www.appalachiabare.com/our-gratitude/) - Appalachia Bare would like to take this opportunity to thank our readers, subscribers, and followers. We’re so grateful for your interest and support. We strive to offer you the best content unique to and from Appalachia. We have exciting plans for future Appalachian topics and more submissions to come from our most talented contributors. We
- [Mark Twain and the Tennessee Land](https://www.appalachiabare.com/mark-twain-and-the-tennessee-land/) - Some time ago, my son and I toured the Museum of Appalachia in Clinton, Tennessee. And, let me tell you, it is a treasure trove of Appalachian everything – from the pioneer days onward. The museum is located within view of Andersonville Hwy, is surrounded by an abundance of native trees, and sits atop lush,
- [Trout Farm Days](https://www.appalachiabare.com/trout-farm-days/) - The day I spotted the help wanted ad I was three years into a dead-end job relocating displaced families for the Tennessee Department of Transportation. My low-paid position was a stepping-stone to nowhere; Tennessee’s unofficial motto, as 49th in state pay, was “thank God for Mississippi.” The regional boss, a champion of mediocracy, had given
- [The Haunting of Spring Creek Tavern - Part 2](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-haunting-of-spring-creek-tavern-part-2/) - As the young woman walks away, Tim points to my beer, “You’re almost done with that. I’ll get you another. You’ll want it for what I am about to tell you.” “Great. Thanks!” I holler as I throw back my first gooey cheese stick. I’m enjoying the conversation and wondering what I am about to
- [Update:  George Washington Harris Short Story Contest](https://www.appalachiabare.com/update-george-washington-harris-short-story-contest/) - The deadline for Appalachia Bare's George Washington Harris short story was November 10. The contest is currently closed to submissions. Winners will be announced by December 15. We appreciate your interest. Please follow our website for more contest information in the future. We accept submissions year-round.
- [Appalachia Bare Short Story Contest!](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachia-bare-short-story-contest/) - The George Washington Harris Short Story Contest is currently closed for submissions. Thank you for your interest. Please follow Appalachia Bare for more contest information in the future. We accept submissions year-round. Appalachian artists and writers have a unique perspective on life. Much of our inspiration derives from family and oral history, and from all
- [The Heron](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-heron/) - Today, I am hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I’m sharing this adventure with my friend, Steve McQueen (yes, his real name). Pleasant winter morning out here among decaying brown leaves and sleepy rhododendron – pleasant because the day feels more like a warm spring afternoon, as opposed to a winter morning. To
- [Seeds](https://www.appalachiabare.com/seeds/) - “I like the old stuff, man.” Steve’s voice is soft as he sips gas-station coffee and cruises the Little River Road. “I mean, just listen to this, dude. Sounds like you’re supposed to rock Bob Seger in the mountains.” We are heading to Rainbow Falls trailhead to climb Mount LeConte. I am excited to hike
- [Rhapsody - Part I](https://www.appalachiabare.com/rhapsody-part-i/) - “Hmm,” I muse quietly to myself, “great series.” I’ve just finished an old Alan Moore comic book saga – Swamp Thing: The Curse. I like all sorts of books. Usually, I spend my time reading non-fiction, environmental journals, or the Beat Generation – and a whole lot of Internet, to be honest. A little over
- [Rhapsody - Part II](https://www.appalachiabare.com/rhasody-part-ii/) - I wasn’t totally sold on getting a puppy for several reasons – chief among them is that puppies are a lot of work. I’ll admit, though, my wife made a good choice for the family. Coors plays well with Sierra, he’s been a good comfort to my wife, and he’s made the boy incredibly happy.
- [Nantahala - Part 2](https://www.appalachiabare.com/nantahala-part-2/) - The tent appears a little blurry, I must admit, as my eyes wrinkle open. I peek out the tent door, in a fresh morning glow, to find Katie cooking breakfast by the fire. Rubbing my eyes, I reach for a water canister and take cool refreshing gulps. Elijah, still in his sleeping bag, is fidgeting,
- [Nantahala - Part 1](https://www.appalachiabare.com/nantahala-part-1/) - Freedom, consciousness, and wildness are all around and ever present as our feet lightly jog across an old, wooden dock. We move gently in the golden light of an aging afternoon sun. With each stride, I sense everything. Blushing coral clouds travel like vessels across a cerulean sky. Brilliant flowers, with their blue, yellow, white,
- [Appalachia Bare Introduces - A Grant Mincy Series](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachia-bare-introduces-a-grant-mincy-series/) - Appalachia Bare is proud to introduce a new monthly nature series written by Grant Mincy, an assistant professor of biology and (sometimes) geology at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, Tennessee. He also sits on the Earth and Planetary Sciences Advisory Council for the University of Tennessee. He often hikes and camps in the Appalachian
- [Resiliency - Part I - by Grant Mincy](https://www.appalachiabare.com/resiliency-part-i-by-grant-mincy/) - This March evening is perfect – one that flickers like a motion picture. I am enjoying myself heartily with good food, music, and drink. I’m accompanied by my little family in a tiny cottage in rural southwestern Virginia. Our lamplight rests at a low dim that accents the rustic wood, stone, and clay that built
- [Resiliency - Part II - by Grant Mincy](https://www.appalachiabare.com/resiliency-part-ii-by-grant-mincy/) - Ah yes, old forest, thank you for the reminder – we are in bear country. Black bear used to inhabit most of North America, but, like all too many animals, habitat loss has significantly reduced the species range. So, here in a mixed forest with plentiful snags, bear find a safe haven. Bear are interesting
- [The Haunting of Spring Creek Tavern](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-haunting-of-spring-creek-tavern/) - I like watching birds in the rain. I’ve a good view of some crows now as a steady patter falls and splatters over the Appalachian Mountains on a chilly, wet, dreary, mid-October afternoon. The rain fell heavy in the early morning, but, now the water lingers as a cool, constant drizzle. Still, the ground is
- [Christine Noble Govan:  Mystery at Book’s End](https://www.appalachiabare.com/christine-noble-govan-mystery-at-books-end/) - Growing up in the shadow of Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga, Tennessee, a city socially stratified according to altitude, I fell under the spell of native author Christine Noble Govan, whose specialty was children’s mystery novels set in or near the city’s scenic attractions. A prolific writer of more than 50 novels, Govan occupied two entire
- [Summer Solstice - Part 2](https://www.appalachiabare.com/summer-solstice-part-2/) - Our hike continues on in humid air with welcome breezes when, all of a sudden, I sense someone running behind me before hearing a terrified scream. “Ah!” Katie yelps. “Oh my God, Casey! Help!” I’m in the lead of our pack, but, startled, I turn around to my wife. Katie’s face is pale with fear
- [Summer Solstice](https://www.appalachiabare.com/summer-solstice/) - “Do you have it?” Aunt Debbie sounds hopeful and looks to Mom with a soft smile. “I do,” my mom whispers stoically, reaching her hand into her purse. Aunt Stephanie curiously watches as an old handkerchief, a memento of their Grandma Shorty, is carefully lifted for the three sisters to admire, “I remember that!” exclaims
- [Lichen it to Mushrooms](https://www.appalachiabare.com/lichen-it-to-mushrooms/) - Photographer: Delonda Anderson Love's Creek, Knoxville, Tennessee Seven Islands State Birding Park, Kodak, Tennessee
- [Appalachian Connections](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachian-connections/) - I am genuinely amazed when outsiders view Appalachian people as nothing more than incestuous (or inbred), uneducated (or lacking), violent, “pillbillies,” (also here and here). To a good portion of people, we are poverty porn, and a host of caricatures. These views are psychologically brutal and personal. And we do feel them. Stereotypes wear us
- [Union Ave Books - The Importance of an Independent Bookstore - by Flossie McNabb](https://www.appalachiabare.com/union-ave-books-the-importance-of-an-independent-bookstore-by-flossie-mcnabb/) - The absence of regional, independent bookstores in Appalachia and the South is similar to an urban sprawl in a bone-dry, flowerless space. We are all, in one way or another, readers for life. And readers search for some kind of respite, or thirst for a more tangible knowledge, or crave a feeling of community. So,
- [Sequoyah](https://www.appalachiabare.com/sequoyah/) - He was a pariah among his own people, having been born with a club foot. His formal education ended early because boys at school taunted him. Maybe that was fate’s way of ensuring the child, who later became Sequoyah, aka Edward Guess, inventor of the Cherokee syllabary, discovered in his limitations the extraordinary ability to
- [Appalachian English Quiz 2 - Answers](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachian-english-quiz-2-answers/) - Below are the answers to our Appalachian English Quiz 2. A bit of information about each word is given, using the following dictionaries: Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) Dictionary of Smoky Mountain and Southern Appalachian English Other resources are linked within the definitions and information. Appalachia Bare would love to
- [Appalachian English Quiz 2 - Test Your Knowledge](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachian-english-quiz-2-test-your-knowledge/) - Appalachian English is a mixture of old languages, and, as such, certain colloquialisms have often been used to illustrate that a distinct saying, a particular phrase, or a specific word derived from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France, or Germany. How so? As most of us know, mountain geography keeps people who live here pretty much
- [Appalachia Bare Welcomes Grant Mincy!](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachia-bare-welcomes-grant-mincy/) - Appalachia Bare welcomes Grant Mincy to our team as our Science & Environmental Scholar. Grant is currently an assistant professor of biology and (sometimes) geology at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he organizes the Panther Hiking Club. He also sits on the Earth and Planetary Sciences Advisory Council for the University of
- [Appalachian Outlaws – a Brand of Their Own](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachian-outlaws-a-brand-of-their-own/) - The myth of the Old West exerts a tremendous influence on the popular imagination. Zane Grey pulp novels, countless TV series, and iconic Western films ensure that the cowboy remains a uniquely American archetype representing in one writer’s words, “movement, isolation, change, and new beginnings.” Of course, the outlaw is an essential trope in this
- [Robert Penn Warren Birthplace and Museum](https://www.appalachiabare.com/robert-penn-warren-birthplace-and-museum/) - One of my greatest joys is visiting museums. I love museums of all kinds but I’m particularly fond of author museums. It should come as no surprise that my bias leans toward Southern authors. (And, if I break it down further, I’d say, I’m even fonder of Appalachian authors.) A few years ago, my husband
- [A Living Mountain Wonderland](https://www.appalachiabare.com/a-living-mountain-wonderland/) - All photographs were taken by Delonda Anderson. **Featured Image: Cow Staring. Taken on a farm in Campbell County, Tennessee. Delonda Anderson, photographer
- [George Washington Harris](https://www.appalachiabare.com/george-washington-harris/) - George Washington Harris was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, on March 20, 1814. In 1819, Harris moved to Knoxville, Tennessee with his half-brother Samuel Bell, who was considerably older than Harris and to whom the latter eventually served as an apprenticed metalworker. Harris’s formal education was scant. Never settling into one profession, Harris was involved
- [Rooted in Magic by Linda Hinkle](https://www.appalachiabare.com/rooted-in-magic-by-linda-hinkle/) - When you grow up sheltered in the shadows of the Appalachian Mountains, magic is all around you. My people came from across the world to these mountains and hollers: bringing with them a mixture of religions, demons, folklore, and wisdom. The mixture of these cultures, combined with the ever-present heady spirituality of the hills, which
- [What We Don't Do Anymore](https://www.appalachiabare.com/what-we-dont-do-anymore/) - People are often horrified when I explain how much a scene in the movie Deliverance, based on the James Dickey novel, reminds me of my family and fills me with such fond memories. No, not that scene, though I can’t blame anyone when the mind instantly leaps to that part. This scene occurs much later,
- [Appalachia Recognized](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachia-recognized/) - The following excerpt was taken from Edward Francisco's introduction, "Appalachia Recognized," in The South in Perspective: An Anthology of Southern Literature (2001 Prentice Hall p.1058-59) This anthology is the only Southern literary compilation to feature Appalachian literature as its own category. Works from writers within the region are acknowledged and celebrated. Edward, Robert Vaughan, and
- [Appalachian English:  A Primer](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachian-english-a-primer/) - Ma: You fixed thishere ringer warsher yet? Pa: I’ll git to it terreckly. Ma: When? Pa: I might could fix it tamaree fit don’t rain. Ma: You might ought to’ve fixed it yestidy when there warn’t no threat of rain. ‘Sides, rain ain’t got nuthin’ to do with it. Thishere warsher is settin’ where
- [Test Your Knowledge of Appalachian English](https://www.appalachiabare.com/test-your-knowledge-of-appalachian-english/) - The dialect and language of Appalachia is unique. Our way of speaking hearkens back to 1500s Middle English. Some of our words are, arguably, even Old English. (Hit, for example, is, as Wylene P. Dial writes, “the Old English third person singular neuter pronoun for [the word] it . . .”) Much of our speech
- [Appalachian English Quiz # 1 - Answers](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachian-english-quiz-1-answers/) - We've compiled some tidbits of information on these Appalachian English words. Some information is extensive, telling the first usage and a little etymology. Other information is sparse. Still other information is somewhat entertaining. 1. Coal oil: b.) kerosene From “How is Lamp Oil Made?” by Alex Burke on the website hunker: Lamp oil
- ["A Strange and Frightful Being" - Appalachia's Folklore Creatures Part 3](https://www.appalachiabare.com/a-strange-and-frightful-being-appalachias-folklore-creatures-part-3/) - Welcome, readers. We have now come to the end of our journey. I hope everyone has avoided our creatures thus far. Hopefully, this series has better prepared readers for any future encounters. Let's explore and investigate the following creatures together. XVI. Tennessee Wildman First Encounter: 1800s in McNairy County, Tennessee Other Encounter: In Elizabethton,
- ["Animals Don't Act Like This" - Appalachia's Folklore Creatures, Part 2](https://www.appalachiabare.com/animals-dont-act-like-this-appalachias-folklore-creatures-part-2/) - In part two of our series, we examine creatures from the Kentucky Hellhound to the dreaded Snarly Yow. Our journey takes us into moonshine country and skyward, then makes a daring turn toward the woods and on thoroughfares. Take care on this trek, lest you get lost and are found by one of these beasts.
- ["Something Beyond Reason, Not Ordinary" - Appalachia's Folklore Creatures, Part 1](https://www.appalachiabare.com/something-beyond-reason-not-ordinary-appalachias-folklore-creatures-part-1/) - In your long hikes and woodland quests, have you ever heard some noise you can’t quite place? A growl, perhaps, or even a howl? Have you shuddered when leaves rustled or a twig snapped? Walking on your way home in dark hollers, did you have a creepy feeling that you were being watched? Have you
- [The Dancing Fiddle by Holly Eaton](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-dancing-fiddle-by-holly-eaton/) - The Dancing Fiddle was going to close down. It had stood at the corner of the main street since most anyone could remember. Bill bought it off the old man who had it before him, and now, as he was old in turn, he had no one to leave it to. Still, the event was
- [Never Say "Pig" on a Boat - Appalachia's Superstitions and Old Wives' Tales](https://www.appalachiabare.com/never-say-pig-on-a-boat-appalachias-superstitions-and-old-wives-tales/) - Memories have a way of invading the mind, conjured from some small movement, an event, the lilt in a voice, a child's laughter, or, sometimes, nothing at all. A few weeks ago, I came home after a hasty, masked, social-distancing trip to the grocery store. Like always, I entered with the groceries through the back
- [The Ever Changing Sky - Second Excerpt Selection](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-ever-changing-sky-second-excerpt-selection/) - Enjoy another sneak peak at Edward Francisco's forthcoming book, The Ever Changing Sky: Meditations on the Psalms (Resource Publishers). Look for it in 2021! Psalm 57 “My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men,
- [Appalachia’s Sons:  A Triptych of Talent](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachias-sons-a-triptych-of-talent/) - Their similarities were keen enough to define an archetype of the Appalachian writer at mid-20th century. Their differences were such as to make each a singular talent. Jesse Stuart, James Still, and George Scarbrough knew one another and admired each other’s work. All possessed shared experiences of growing up on hard-scrabble farms, all struggled to
- [What Was on Her Mind](https://www.appalachiabare.com/what-was-on-her-mind/) - Detective Gowan stood across from me and fiddled with some recorder. He perked up when another detective entered the room. “Name’s Bob,” he said. “Bob Kroy.” He slid a paper in front of me. “Sign this before you make your statement. Says you’re tellin’ the truth – to the best of your knowledge, of course.”
- [The Battle of King’s Mountain October 7, 1780](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-battle-of-kings-mountain-october-7-1780/) - The rolling, rock strewn mountain forests of Southern Appalachia can be a wonderful place to experience the vast wonders of the natural world on a peaceful hike. The region is rich with bounty. Its hills, hollows, and valleys full of wild, edible plants, tasty fruits and berries, wholesome nuts, plentiful game, and deep rich soil
- [Slow Banks by Ian McClelland](https://www.appalachiabare.com/slow-banks-by-ian-mcclelland/) - 1. You and I lived nowhere by the river among the frogs, mushrooms, and flowers that flourished beside the sidewalks of our neighborhood. In the light of moon against the southern trees blowing in wind from the west, Your phone and my face glowed as we talked about what we wanted to be and what
- [8th of August: Tennessee's Celebration of Emancipation](https://www.appalachiabare.com/8th-of-august-tennessees-celebration-of-emancipation/) - From time to time Appalachia Bare will share videos produced by Black in Appalachia. Black in Appalachia is an organization dedicated to preserving and highlighting the stories and contributions of the African-American communities of our region through research, oral histories, document preservation, and exhibition. This is all provided as a community service for Appalachian residents
- [Today’s Red Death by Paul Hester](https://www.appalachiabare.com/todays-red-death-by-paul-hester/) - Today's Red Death I have been shut in my house, my yard, and my neighborhood for the past two months, and I am getting frustrated with how drawn out all the government's coronavirus safety measures have become. I have not seen my grandparents or friends during all of that time, been able to go to
- [Flashback in Time (Excerpt two) by Benny Franklin Shown, Sr.](https://www.appalachiabare.com/flashback-in-time-excerpt-two-by-benny-franklin-shown-sr/) - In honor of Memorial Day, I'm including a second excerpt of my father's memoirs when he was in the Vietnam War. Thank you to all our service members - to those who fought in the past and to those who still continue to fight. --Delonda Anderson Excerpt Two It was quiet except for the
- [Flashback in Time III](https://www.appalachiabare.com/flashback-in-time-iii/) - Now my mind was again filled with memories of my mother’s homemade cakes. Boy, they sure were good. I wondered how they all were – my sisters and brothers. I wondered how my father was doing. My father didn’t write much, but he didn’t have to. I knew by now how he must have hurt
- [Redneck Hillbilly](https://www.appalachiabare.com/redneck-hillbilly/) - When my brother and I were little, we raced to sit in front of the TV to watch cartoons on our three channels. (Five, depending on how you rotated the outdoor antenna.) Whoever sat down first could watch whatever cartoons he or she wanted. This "plan" was doomed, however, when it became the inception of
- [Danny Laemon](https://www.appalachiabare.com/danny-laemon/) - He had idiot written all over his face. He smelled bad too, like he’d been swimming with crawdads in a sewer. Mama made me promise not to make fun of his poorly brushed teeth or the way he came to school sprouting hair in all directions. But Mama never had to sit by him on
- [The Long View:  Racism in America Over Six Decades](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-long-view-racism-in-america-over-six-decades/) - Growing up in the 1960s during an era of assassinations, civil unrest, and the war in southeast Asia, at times I wore sadness like a raincoat as a palpable and threatening cloud hung over the nation. My memories of that time recur as a series of stock and binary images: white state troopers beating, tear
- [Keeping Up with Corona](https://www.appalachiabare.com/keeping-up-with-corona/) - These days leading up to summer are so gorgeous and bright; and they seem to beckon us to forget the sickness that pervades the world. But we are warriors in more ways than one. We must continue to arm ourselves against this sickness. We must continue to wear masks and gloves, continue to disinfect everyone
- [Their Names](https://www.appalachiabare.com/their-names/) - The recent death of George Floyd poured salt onto a gaping, raw wound in this country. The event exposed excessive police force, police overreach, and the absolute need for reform. The following African American names are by no means an exhaustive list. Though the deaths of many of the African Americans listed below did not
- [Virgil Davis - A Memory](https://www.appalachiabare.com/virgil-davis-a-memory/) - My friend Virgil Davis passed away on April 21, 2020, at his home in Knoxville, Tennessee. At the time, I posted a brief tribute to him on Facebook describing Virgil as a gentleman, scholar, teacher, community organizer, and social justice advocate. His son Jon echoed my sentiment in his dad’s obituary, stating that Virgil “believed
- [The Physical and Psychological Devastation of Europe in World War I](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-physical-and-psychological-devastation-of-europe-in-world-war-i/) - The causes of World War I are arguable, but its devastating physical and psychological effects on Europe’s home front and battlefield are not debatable. Before the war, no one could have foretold that the events which stemmed mainly from rivalries and alliances((Sherman, Denis, and Joyce Salisbury. The West in the World 3E. New York:
- [Appalachia Bare Featured Writer - Edward Francisco](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachia-bare-featured-writer-edward-francisco/) - Appalachia Bare is very grateful for our readers. We hope you enjoy all the posts with interesting information about Appalachia and the creative talents within her. Talents certainly do abound in these mountains, hills, and valleys. Allow us just a moment to feature one such talent - our Associate Editor, Edward Francisco. We consider it
- [Elegy in a Country Churchyard](https://www.appalachiabare.com/elegy-in-a-country-churchyard/) - Highway 27 is a two-lane ribbon connecting Chattanooga and Dayton, Tennessee. It passes through the small, unincorporated township of Sale Creek in northern Hamilton County. The locale takes its name from the creek which runs through it. The creek got its name from the auction held along its banks consisting of goods and arms taken
- [An Interview with George Brosi](https://www.appalachiabare.com/an-interview-with-george-brosi/) - Appalachia Bare’s distinguished Associate Editor, Edward Francisco, recently conducted an interview with editor, writer, activist, and promoter of all things Appalachia, George Brosi. Our region is filled with so many people who dedicate their lives to Appalachian causes. Brosi is one such person. Please enjoy reading his bio entry and Francisco’s interview. Biography George
- [Appalachians in Moving Pictures - Honorable Mentions](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachians-in-moving-pictures-honorable-mentions/) - Please enjoy these Honorable Mentions - the very, very last of this series. **BEST enjoyed in landscape view, if you're on a smartphone. Chester A. Alexander I found no pictures of Chester Alexander. He was born in Piedmont Alabama, August 7, 1885. Alexander was an ordained minister. He played Deacon Simpkins in Body and
- [Appalachians in Moving Pictures - Part IV](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachians-in-moving-pictures-part-iv/) - I hope you enjoy this fourth installment of Appalachians in Moving Pictures. My initial hope was to fit all the actors, featured and honorable, in this post. However, the information on these actors far exceeded my expectations. So, I have decided to include a Part IV-B for honorable mentions that will post soon. Dick
- [Appalachians in Moving Pictures - Part III](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachians-in-moving-pictures-part-iii/) - Welcome to the third installment in the series "Appalachians in Moving Pictures," a post about silent film actors born in Appalachia. The first and second parts focused only on actresses, while the third and fourth sections are designated for actors. You'll notice Part III and Part IV are a little different. As I've told Appalachia
- [What I've Been Doing Since . . .](https://www.appalachiabare.com/what-ive-been-doing-since/) - While my husband and I have been social distancing and staying home, we've completed projects we intended to do, but we either had no time or were too exhausted to do them. I imagine many others are doing the same as we are. I'm sharing our projects with you. How about sharing yours with Appalachia
- [Appalachians in Moving Pictures, Part II](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachians-in-moving-pictures-part-ii/) - Welcome to the second part of "Appalachians in Moving Pictures." This endeavor is a four-part series in our "Resurrecting Forgotten Artists" section. The first and second, as you have seen, are devoted to silent film actresses who were born in Appalachia. I chose the term, actress, because the denotation was used in 20th century film.
- [What We're All Talking About](https://www.appalachiabare.com/what-were-all-talking-about/) - I just wanted to send well wishes to everyone during this health crisis. These are certainly extraordinary times. As a nation, we are forced to slow down when we’re so used to going, going, going, moving, moving, moving. Some of us have rarely, if ever, slowed down and the concept is so strange that we
- [*I Always Call Myself a Tennessee Hillbilly - A Remembrance of Grace Moore](https://www.appalachiabare.com/i-always-call-myself-a-tennessee-hillbilly-a-remembrance-of-grace-moore/) - It is wonderful to live and sing. It is a great thing to feel that one is able to help other people with one’s voice. I want to play in a new opera where the heroine does not die in the last scene or go mad. That is why I love Charpentier’s Louise. The girl
- [All Smiles](https://www.appalachiabare.com/all-smiles/) - With a routine smile, the waitress brought sharp, black coffee to the old couple at the diner booth. It was a gesture offered to all patrons. She placed the cups on the red checkered tablecloth. The poised, elderly lady sat elegant, gracious, and mute in her lace-ruffled blouse, and gazed at her elderly husband like
- [Freak Show:  Confessions of a Modern Southerner](https://www.appalachiabare.com/freak-show-confessions-of-a-modern-southerner/) - It stalks like a shadow and hugs like a strait-jacket. I wear it like an off-the-rack, ill-fitting coat. At times, it tightens round my throat like a scarf threatening to strangle me. It’s closer than my own skin. It itches in spots beyond my reach to scratch. I didn’t ask for it but received it
- [A Night on the Obed](https://www.appalachiabare.com/a-night-on-the-obed/) - Our river is the Obed River in southeastern Appalachia. There are five of us. We’re all good friends. We work at the same restaurant and watering hole, the old Sunspot, on the old strip – otherwise known as Cumberland Avenue in Knoxville, Tennessee. We are coming of age, living in an Appalachian city, and rambling
- [American Chestnut](https://www.appalachiabare.com/american-chestnut/) - My mom has a chestnut tree in her new backyard. I know because I came across dozens of little spiky somethings spread on the ground and I was concerned that her dog might step on one (or more) and get hurt. I brought one into her house. We debated as to what it could be
- [Black in Appalachia](https://www.appalachiabare.com/black-in-appalachia/) - At the tail end of Black History Month in 2020, Appalachia Bare would like to introduce you to an exciting historical preservation project in the Appalachian community. Black in Appalachia is a community service and documentary series project aiming to exhibit and preserve the histories of African American communities across Appalachia. The documentary series
- [Elegy to a Grandson](https://www.appalachiabare.com/elegy-to-a-grandson/) - My grandson, Joshua Bathe, passed away last April after being diagnosed with an aggressive cancer five months earlier. The following is my poetic tribute to him. Elegy to a Grandson Grief undulates like an inchworm and just as slowly. It forces one to use the conditional tense: He would have been . .
- [Appalachian Transplant](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachian-transplant/) - So, what does it mean to be Appalachian? Is it merely a birthright or can one become Appalachian? Are there different degrees of being Appalachian? Is there a checklist? Love the mountains — check. Love to hike — check. Enjoy banjo and fiddle music —double check. For those whose roots go back many generations in
- [Two Chairs Fading](https://www.appalachiabare.com/two-chairs-fading/) - This short poem was written some years ago when my daughter first started riding the bus to school. Nowadays, she is definitely unmoored from my hand but hasn’t washed out to sea (yet). The neighbor’s chairs (see photo) were cast off to parts unknown. Two Chairs Fading Each day on the way to the bus
- [Tea Cupboard](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tea-cupboard/) - Hot tea is a very pleasant and beneficial beverage. Its elements produce a soothing aroma and lend comfort and well-being to the throat and body. Hot teas are a helpful drink for the body’s system. I thought I might research some of the teas in my cupboard and divulge what I’ve found useful in each
- [Alvin Goins](https://www.appalachiabare.com/alvin-goins/) - Alvin Goins was a day laborer living in Rhea County, Tennessee, during the early and mid-years of the twentieth century. He was a Melungeon, a descendant of Portuguese ancestry. He was also illiterate. Yet, he had an extraordinary gift for numbers, able to calculate sums mentally in seconds, qualifying him, in the parlance of the
- [Ducktown Basin Museum Road Trip - A Photo Essay](https://www.appalachiabare.com/ducktown-basin-museum-road-trip/) - My December 2019 side trip off Highway 68 to Ducktown was inspired by Edward Francisco’s “Copper Hill – A Legacy,” posted in September. I also had seen the “moonscape” as a child and swam in the sulfur-scented, olive-tinted water downstream. The mines and processing plants are closed; yet, their legacy and many of the stories
- [On the Lost Art of the Handwritten Note](https://www.appalachiabare.com/on-the-lost-art-of-the-handwritten-note/) - When I was ten, my mother enrolled me in Margaret Howell’s School of Dancing and Etiquette. It was a phase of my male finishing school education designed to rid the savage within and transform me into a Southern gentleman, i.e., Chaucer’s “veray parfit gentil knight.” (For the record, all gentlemen do not reside below the
- [Christmas Roots by Brandie Hurst](https://www.appalachiabare.com/christmas-roots-by-brandie-hurst/) - The ornaments on my Christmas tree tell the story of my life. Fisherman for Mamaw hangs at the top, she’s gone now, but that man smiles like she did when she saw me opening my gifts. Red hope, an ornament for losing her and remembering her a year later when another Christmas came around. I
- [Holiday Greetings and A Hearty Thank You](https://www.appalachiabare.com/holiday-greetings-and-a-hearty-thank-you/) - Appalachia Bare would like to wish everyone a Happy Holiday, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year! Thank you to everyone who visited our site and read or viewed the contributions of some truly gifted individuals. We hope you find us worthy of further readership and exploration. We're taking time off for the holidays and will
- [     Reminder](https://www.appalachiabare.com/reminder/) - --- From Death, Child, & Love: Poems 1980-2000 Last night while trimming our Christmas tree my son pointed out how I'd not written many poems lately to which I replied, "It's true. But sometimes life is more prose than poetry. Do you understand?" A stupid question considering what he'd just said and what I'd tried
- [Spirits Rooted to the Soil](https://www.appalachiabare.com/spirits-rooted-to-the-soil/) - The air is cool as dark, billowy clouds let loose a light mist, and a gentle breeze rustles the brightly colored limbs of deciduous trees. Leaves, in all their late October glory, with their deep reds, dark purples, bright golds, and fiery oranges, appear to dance in the air. Their colors seem enhanced –
- [Copperhill - A Legacy](https://www.appalachiabare.com/copperhill-a-legacy/) - **Photo Source: Library of Congress The history of the Southern Appalachian region is a saga of exploitation by profiteers inimical to the aims of ordinary people to provide for their families in safe conditions. The brutal treatment of coal miners and their families is well known and thoroughly documented. However, coal wasn’t the only commodity
- [Flowers of Darkness by Grant A. Mincy*](https://www.appalachiabare.com/flowers-of-darkness-by-grant-a-mincy/) - In the primeval forests of Appalachia, among the wildness, among the coal mines and their homegrown communities, waters flow. From mountain ridges these waters course and trickle into one another. Momentum from this continuum carves, molds, and sculpts ancient rock. Ever so slowly, water erodes away the lithology. Soluble minerals in mountain rocks – such
- [And a Side of Home Fries, Please by William Householder](https://www.appalachiabare.com/and-a-side-of-home-fries-please-by-william-householder/) - I went to my mother's grave last night, which was fitting, seeing as it was Mother's Day, but that's not why I went. I went because she was to be dug up in the morning. All of the graves at the Waldrop Memorial Cemetery, the ones not claimed and reburied elsewhere, that is, were being
- [Graveyard Rabbit by Joshua Carpenter](https://www.appalachiabare.com/graveyard-rabbit-by-joshua-carpenter/) - Palatino kept her trail right along with me. She’s a good hound when she wants to be. At least to me not Brother. Brother says its cause we’re both girls. Says we both smell so good for good reason. I don’t pay him no mind, even though he’s telling the truth. Palatino is my little
- [Why Appalachia Bare?](https://www.appalachiabare.com/why-appalachia-bare/) - Written by Delonda Anderson Editor A few years ago, I attended the James Agee Conference for Literature and Arts at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, Tennessee. The event broke into several workshops and sessions that mostly focused on new Appalachian talent with a smattering of old genius. During the last session, I was fairly
- [The Misuse of African American History in Ken Burns' Country Music Series - Comment by David Madden](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-misuse-of-african-american-history-in-ken-burns-country-music-series-comment-by-david-madden/) - A person cannot live in Appalachia or the South without experiencing "hillbilly music," replaced in 1949 as "country music." The familiar sonority, accompanied by a melodic, twangy dialect, echoes and reverberates across hills and hollers, flat lands and swamps. It surrounds just about every facet of the region and can be sung in such genres
- [Writing Words - A David Madden Interview Part II](https://www.appalachiabare.com/writing-words-a-david-madden-interview-part-ii/) - In 2013, Delonda Anderson conducted an interview with David Madden, published in Pellissippi State Community College’s Imaginary Gardens Literary and Arts Review. The following is Part II of that interview. THE INTERVIEW – PART II David Madden (MADDEN) – The interviewee Delonda Anderson (DA) – The interviewer DA: Some writers express anxiety about creating characters of
- [Writing Words:  A David Madden Interview](https://www.appalachiabare.com/writing-words-a-david-madden-interview/) - INTRODUCTION In 2013, Delonda Anderson conducted an interview with David Madden, published in Pellissippi State Community College’s Imaginary Gardens Literary and Arts Review. The following is Part I of that interview, with a tweaked introduction that also accredits work he has accomplished since then. On a frosty winter day, one might see eighty-six-year old David
- [Hygiene](https://www.appalachiabare.com/hygiene/) - Asthma and allergic diseases increased after children moved from free range outdoor activities to sanitized indoor playrooms and virtual playgrounds. According to the “hygiene hypothesis,” early exposure to germs and allergens is required to develop a robust immune system. As a “Mr. Mom” who prefers bike pedaling to pushing a vacuum cleaner, I played my
- [The Devil in Appalachia - The Bloodthirsty Harpe Brothers](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-devil-in-appalachia-the-bloodthirsty-harpe-brothers/) - **Warning: Graphic Depictions of Violence in this post Have you ever met the devil in Appalachia? Alone in unnerving wooded areas day or night? The devil wears different disguises. For some, he is a brawny satyr with goat legs, bovine horns, and an arrowed pin tail. For others, the devil is more like Percy Shelley’s
- [Henry Everett](https://www.appalachiabare.com/henry-everett/) - Henry Everett The old man lived for the sound of a chicken squawking, the sentry’s warning at which he drew back light from a windowless cabin, a portal cut squarely at eye-level in a single oaken door, then stuck the sightless barrel directionlessly out into night that thundered once with tremulous pleasure. It was a
- [Francisco's Book Review - What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia](https://www.appalachiabare.com/franciscos-book-review-what-you-are-getting-wrong-about-appalachia/) - If you read my review of J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy, then you’ll recognize that Elizabeth Catte’s What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia has done my work for me, though we arrived at similar conclusions independently. Catte is a historian with more than simply an anecdotal interest in Appalachia. Whereas Vance paints the region in
- [Florence Reece - Champion of Appalachia](https://www.appalachiabare.com/florence-reece-champion-of-appalachia/) - **Photograph: A crowd of miners confronting soldiers - Harlan County, Kentucky 1939 My stage play, “Which Side Are You On: The Florence Reece Story,” debuted at Pellissippi State Community College on April 15, 2016. The play recounts episodes in the life of Florence Reece, an American social activist, poet, and folk song writer –
- [Dickering](https://www.appalachiabare.com/dickering/) - I know Daddy knows what he’s doing. Even when he’s quiet he’s thinking. The old man with tobacco sitting in his jaw like a tumor is our enemy. He would keep us from buying the truck we need that slopes on the weedy ridge of this junkyard. Because I am too excited Daddy has told
- [When Stephen King Turned into a Plant -The Old Villain Kudzu](https://www.appalachiabare.com/when-stephen-king-turned-into-a-plant-the-old-villain-kudzu/) - On closer look it becomes what we most despise: something unnameably near, confounding us with its ability to make vague silhouettes of familiar landmarks or bloat the once-solid shapes of signs lending geometric certitude to all our directions. -- Edward Francisco From “The Terror of Kudzu” One of my favorite pastimes as a child
- [The Terror of Kudzu](https://www.appalachiabare.com/the-terror-of-kudzu/) - Its own metaphor for ineradicable nuisance, it plays at the mind’s edges, encroaching in the dullest greens, doffing the hat of a rude guest, last to leave the party. In some distant country it could be haiku climbing the walls in search of obscure interpretations, its tendrils reaching for meaning beyond the obvious, clinging to
- [Appalachian Ghazal](https://www.appalachiabare.com/appalachian-ghazal/) - I am come from earth And return to earth. Blankets of green grasses Dig into this earth. Sighing now, I stroll In hollows of earth, Never seeming to find My spot on this earth. Wandering onward With creatures of earth, I watch the aged and the sick Go back to the earth, Where dearth is
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- [Stories of Yore](https://www.appalachiabare.com/stories-of-yore/) - **Featured Image from Delonda Anderson's collection **Featured image for all sub-categories: parchment paper from pixy.org
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- [Coal mining](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/coal-mining/)
- [Briceville](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/briceville/)
- [Rocky Top](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/rocky-top/)
- [coal miner](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/coal-miner/)
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- [coal disaster](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/coal-disaster/)
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- [coal mining disaster](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/coal-mining-disaster/)
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- [Coal Creek Miners Museum](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/coal-creek-miners-museum/)
- [Cross Mountain](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/cross-mountain/)
- [Cross Mountain disaster](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/cross-mountain-disaster/)
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- [carbon monoxide](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/carbon-monoxide/)
- [Cross Mountain survivors](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/cross-mountain-survivors/)
- [Christmas](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/christmas/)
- [1911](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/1911/)
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- [segregation](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/segregation/)
- [American underclass](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/american-underclass/)
- [cultural privilege](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/cultural-privilege/)
- [Charles Murray](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/charles-murray/)
- [The Bell Curve](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/the-bell-curve/)
- [subsidizing births](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/subsidizing-births/)
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- [Vance](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/vance/)
- [Catte](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/catte/)
- [What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/what-you-are-getting-wrong-about-appalachia/)
- [Highlander Folk School](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/highlander-folk-school/)
- [Appalshop](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/appalshop/)
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- [Eula Hall](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/eula-hall/)
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- [LGBTQ](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/lgbtq/)
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- [Copper](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/copper/)
- [copper mining](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/copper-mining/)
- [Copperhill](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/copperhill/)
- [Polk County](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/polk-county/)
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- [environmental](https://www.appalachiabare.com/tag/environmental/)
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