C idermaker and orchadist Diane Flynt strides through her Dugspur, Virginia, orchard checking fist- and plum-sized apples for degress of ripeness. The seventy-two-year-old with black square-framed ...

The Oxford American is looking for an Executive Director to lead one of the country’s most distinctive literary magazines through a period of transition and renewal. Since 1992, the Oxford American ...

Banksy’s Boy on a Life Preserver Swing was restored by Elise Grenier and is now on display at the International House in New Orleans. Photograph courtesy Oliver Halfin Ronnie Fredericks, a dump truck ...

I spent my childhood in the country about fifteen miles north of Knoxville, Tennessee. The center of our little community was Harbison Crossroads, on one corner a gas station and the other the IGA, ...

W hen thrifter and collector Patrick Barbour took a flyer on visiting an antique mall near Lexington, Tennessee, he had one thing in mind: a new synthesizer. “The shop had some instruments, amps, tape ...

L oudoun County—situated like a right-side feather on the northern cap of Virginia—is referred to as “Data Center Alley” because it carries more than seventy percent of global web traffic via over 200 ...

“L ord willing and the creek don’t rise” is more than a turn of phrase in Appalachia. It’s a prayer. It’s always untelling what rising waters might bring, but no one was ready for the signs and ...

A hint of blue on the horizon meant morning was coming. And as they have for the past fifty-four years, Audrey and Gary Revell stepped out their screen door, walked down a ramp, and climbed into their ...

O n a summer evening years ago, I was having drinks with some college friends in the lobby bar at the Hotel Monteleone, a landmark of the French Quarter in New Orleans, when one of them grabbed my arm ...

KIRBY and Akeem Ali. Photography by Chauncey Magnum. Courtesy Shore Fire Media A ccomplished singer, songwriter, and “Granddaughter of Soul” KIRBY (Kirby Lauryen Dockery), draws from the deep sonic ...

T he cover for the 1973 album Nutbush City Limits offers a visual representation of the Southern roots and the movement to other parts of the country that are crucial to the biographies of Ike and ...

Rebecca Gayle Howell is a poet writing new myths for climate change. Her genre-bending work has received awards like the United States Artists Fellowship, two fellowships from the Fine Arts Work ...