Life is about balance. We hear this all the time. But when Hanna du Plessis received her terminal diagnosis, this lesson took on a different weight. It was learning how…

Molded by the realities of rural life and raised by “story-tellers, bullshitters and people that love to sit around and talk,” musicians Montana Hobbs and Linda Jean Stokley are part…

125 years ago, a yellow brick church was built on Atwood Street in Oakland, a Pittsburgh neighborhood known for its universities. The house of worship has hosted a variety of…

The singer-songwriter on finding healing through music after Hurricane Helene and putting down new roots in Los Angeles. When singer-songwriter Indigo De Souza (she/they) bought a plot of land in…

In an era where the music industry can feel increasingly digitized and distant, something handmade is thriving. Across Appalachia, a growing cohort of visual artists is carving, inking and illustrating…

No one in this piece lives in Appalachia. We’ve left to seek our fortunes elsewhere, at least for now. Caught between the hazy past of childhood and the solidity of…

In 1980, five Black women were injured in a drive-by shooting carried out by local Klansmen in Chattanooga, TN. Two years later, these women filed a civil lawsuit against the…

Justin Darnell didn’t expect any of this. He didn’t expect to be a successful entrepreneur, bringing dozens of jobs to his eastern Kentucky hometown. He didn’t expect to have a…

For artist Brian Serway, creating art is less about reproducing a vision and more about discovering it. Brian lives with aphantasia, a condition where his mind lacks the ability to…

Andi is telling me the story of rediscovering a childhood notebook, and by that point in the call, my cheeks hurt from smiling for an hour straight. Between her unapologetic…