This story takes you to Westel, Tennessee, home to the fiddle maker Jean Horner. For more than seventy years, Horner built instruments that traveled ...

Metallica’s ‘Disposable Heroes’ blared on a bluetooth speaker. The rest of Marshall, North Carolina, was asleep. But ...

The promise to refuse poverty for students created an ultimatum for staff that sparked innovation, rather than panic.

When calamity strikes, as it often has in the Appalachian community of Swannanoa, North Carolina, the “proud, fierce, and maybe a little crazy” working ...

This story was originally published by Sentient. In Duplin County, North Carolina, there is a pollutant that hangs in the air, the water and the soil. It ...

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