Meredith Mccarroll News Today

In the gift shop of some museum in Washington, D.C. that couldn’t pique the interest of my 6th-grade brain, I started a conversation with another shopper. She seemed sweet — a local who wanted to get a T-shirt for her son who attended college in another state, a keep-sake to remind him of where he...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – East Tennessee State University (ETSU) faculty and staff are starting the arduous journey to completely remake and reformat one of the most labor-intensive publications to come out of the region: the Encyclopedia of Appalachia. ETSU’s Center for Appalachian Studies and Services, headed by Dr. Ron Roach, partnered with the university’s […]

WBUR arts and culture fellow Lauren Williams recommends books about the history of the Appalachia region.