What’s that cute, fluffy animal with long ears hopping at top speed across the top of Clingmans Dome in Great Smoky Mountains National Park? Is it the common eastern cottontail, or could it be the ...

This Midwestern girl was stunned at the response to a recent column I wrote about my first impressions of East Tennessee. One topic struck people in particular: Learning the lingo. I struggled ...

This video shares words from the old Appalachian dialect and mountain sayings passed down through generations in the Appalachian Mountains. These are real words used in the hills and hollers of ...