Pine Mountain Settlement News Today

A friend asked what I thought about the recent "dust up," as she called it, at Pine Mountain Settlement School in Harlan County, Ky., deep in the Appalachian hills.

Letters to the Editor: Former churches are not an uncommon sight throughout this country, in fact many of them have been converted to other uses.

(TNS) Maurica Cornett’s father often repeated an important maxim: “You have a garden, you won’t go hungry.”

A return to gardening asks Eastern Kentuckians to reach back to cultural roots that predate the region’s decades of coal booms.

Paul Prather: This situation at the Pine Mountain Settlement School shows yet again the extent to which opposing factions now demonize each other.