Ron Rash has made the fog-shrouded ridges of Appalachia his fictional home in ... Set in the early 1950s in Blowing Rock, a hamlet in North Carolina’s mountainous west, the novel is a compelling ...

Last week the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a report about Consumer Finances in Rural Appalachia. This report looks at the entire Appalachian region of the U.S. encompassing 206 ...

Rural arts programs helped Eastern Kentucky maker Cynthia Main develop Sunhouse Craft, a sustainable business with an Appalachian sense of place. Main’s origin story parallels that of many small ...

Cynthia Main runs Sunhouse Craft, a company that makes handmade brooms, Appalachian style. (Photo courtesy of Sunhouse Craft) Rural arts programs helped Eastern Kentucky maker Cynthia Main develop ...

2023, an annual event held to celebrate the surrounding Appalachian region. The Partners for Rural Impact are taking a philanthropic model from Harlem and adapting it for Appalachian Kentucky.

Increased income and lower poverty rates Poverty rates declined in every Appalachian subregion, state and type of county (urban and rural). The region’s overall poverty rate (14.3 percent ...