Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The floodwater line is visible on the exterior wall of the Appalshop cultural center in Whitesburg, Ky. (Timothy D. Easley / ...

In the early days of photography, most Appalachian families did not own a camera. A photograph was not simply something you ...

The raging floodwaters that left dozens dead or missing in eastern Kentucky also swept away some of the region's irreplaceable history. Appalshop, a cultural center known for chronicling Appalachian ...

There are some lives that don’t come to us through history books or official records, but through memory and oral history ...

Appalshop has been a cornerstone of Whitesburg, Kentucky, since 1969, working to tell stories about Appalachian people through art, film, music and more with a focus on their voices. Its theater ...

WHITESBURG, Ky. (AP) — The raging floodwaters that left dozens dead or missing in eastern Kentucky also swept away some of the region’s irreplaceable history. Appalshop, a cultural center known for ...

A good bit of Appalachian history and arts got soaked in the record flooding in Eastern Kentucky. In Whitesburg, water may have breached the vault at Appalshop, where the arts and media collective ...

The physical isolation of Appalachian hollows created a culture of radical self-reliance that still defines how mountain communities relate to one another today. Generations of shared economic ...

Just as the leaves begin to turn, visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park can turn back the clock and get a taste of daily life long ago in the Appalachian Mountains. The annual Mountain Life ...