Historically, the Catawba River Valley in North Carolina is pottery country. The Reinhardt family worked here for generations, making utilitarian pots for farmers. Now, Michael Gates is building on his ancestors’ work. Gates has always been creative, but it took him a while to find his calling as an artist. […]
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A report from the Appalachian Regional Commission shows that across the region, Appalachian communities are starting to rebound. In the past year, there has been a drop in the number of counties that are considered economically distressed by the ARC, leading to the best economic report of its kind for […]
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Tuesday morning, 30 men and four women will walk into the chamber of the West Virginia Senate to participate in historic proceedings– proceedings that haven’t been conducted in the state since 1875, not long after its founding. Those 34 Senators will take an oath to become 34 jurors and hear […]
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In a recent tweet, the West Virginia Republican Party offered an example of how well the national economy is performing. On Aug. 10, the party tweeted, “ICYMI: For only the second time since 2000, there are more job openings than Americans who are unemployed. Tax reform and a pro-growth agenda have […]
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Wise, Virginia, is not a place that’s easy to get to. It’s 50 miles from the nearest interstate and almost 70 miles from the nearest commercial airport. And regardless of where you start from on your way to Wise—a town of 3,000 people in the Southern Appalachians—you’ll have to negotiate […]
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Editor’s Note: Roger May is an Appalachian photographer and director of Looking at Appalachia, a crowd-sourced photo series. Below is a selection of images from the series meant to show the diversity of the project’s submissions, with a foreword by May. Friends, The Looking at Appalachia project was launched in […]
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