It’s a fall afternoon, and Jessica Phillips is sitting in a log cabin and discussing Foxfire, the cultural appreciation nonprofit that for 50 years has transcribed and recorded the oral histories of ...

He was a master of shape-note singing — a remarkable old style of music he learned from his elders, who learned it from their elders in the mountains of northern Georgia. The students wanted to ...

The 1,500-mile Appalachian Mountain range stretches so far that those on the northern and southern sides can't agree on what to call it: Appa-LAY-chia or Appa-LATCH-ia. The outside perspective on the ...

This is a column by Tommy Barton, the retired editorial page editor of the Savannah Morning News. MOUNTAIN CITY — Anytime is a good time to visit the mountains of North Georgia, especially when the ...

MOUNTAIN CITY, Georgia — Just off U.S. Highway 23, along the spectacular views of the Blue Ridge Mountains, T.J. Smith spends his days continuing the tradition of the iconic Foxfire Fund: an ...

MOUNTAIN CITY, Ga. -- Foxfire, the nonprofit guardian of Appalachian history, is working to erase what remains of its own troubled past with hopes of reclaiming its former folksy glory. After decades ...

"THE FOXFIRE BOOK OF APPALACHIAN WOMEN," edited By Kami Ahrens (The University of North Carolina Press, 268 pages, $25). The Foxfire series, as editor Kami Ahrens explains in the introduction to "The ...

Students interview Arie Carpenter, a widow known simply and affectionately as Aunt Arie, on her front porch. She dispensed bits of wisdom such as "Livin' by yourself ain't all roses — and it ain't all ...