Appalachian Instagram
A visual feed of Appalachia from Instagram — misty mountain ridgelines, small-town main streets, gardens and homesteads, folk art, food, and the photographers documenting life across the Appalachian Mountains.
They couldn't always read standard music, so they sang by shape instead. 🎶🕯️ Shape-note singing used triangle, oval, s...
He worked a full shift underground and got paid in coins that only spent at one store. 🪙⛏️ Coal companies across Appala...
Somewhere in a courthouse basement, your family's whole story is sitting in a ledger nobody's opened in decades. 📜🕯️ C...
Every quilt on that line was carrying somebody's whole life in its stitches. 🧵🍂 Quilting in Appalachia recorded family...
For a lot of mountain towns, that single track was the only road to anywhere else. 🚂🌫️ Railroads cut through some of t...
A ring around the moon meant snow was on its way, and nobody up in these hills questioned it. 🌙❄️ Long before forecasts...
This music started as neighbors gathering on a porch after supper, long before it ever had a name. 🎻🪕 Bluegrass and ol...
There's always one house in the holler that nobody walks past after dark. 🌫️🕯️ Every Appalachian community seems to ho...
These ridges used to be thick with old-growth timber taller than anything standing today. 🪓🌲 The logging boom brought ...
There's a whole town sleeping under that water. ⛪🌫️ Dams reshaped the mountains in ways that went far beyond the landsc...
Ten thousand miners climbed that mountain, and the sky lit up before the sun ever went down. ⛏️🔥 They came from coal ca...
Two and a half hours later, my meeting with Tattered Script Publishing’s @aliciacahalanelewis has left me buzzing like I...
Thanks to a generous donation, Black in Appalachia is now making our tombstone cleaning kit available for use for Africa...
if you are seeing this i’m out here in this creek pray for them fish & crawdads. i’m coming for em. back to regularly sc...
Granny Magic: Telling the Bees What if the bees were part of the family? For centuries, people in England, Europe, and l...
☘️ Some of the most "Southern" traditions may have started long before America existed. From front porch storytelling to...
This is what happens when Appalachian horror, Halloween, abandoned carnivals, and dark romance all crawl into the same n...
Did you know that almost all of the nature photos featured on our social media are taken by our clinicians? At Organic C...
QOTD: What's would you do for true love? New character art for my debut novel No Man's Daughter! The story of a fugitive...
Could a book cover be anymore intense ? 🎪🖤 Personally cannot wait to be introduced to The Knucklebone Brothers 🤩 Welc...
🦷 Jersey Devil for Zach!! 👹 so so excited by how this came out, I’d love to do more cryptids! ~ Books open always in t...
🎬 Exciting news for our region! The Mid-Ohio Valley Entertainment Commission (MOV Film) is honored to announce that we ...
From traveling the world researching bugs and birds to retreating to an off-grid hunting cabin isolated deep in the wood...
Let’s hike the Appalachian trail 🌳🪵🏕️ From Maine all the way down to Georgia! And here are some book recs that take p...
#sothisislove #humbledreamshomestead #humbledreams #appalachia
A docuseries in the making. A movement as it becomes itself. Told through the people who make your clothes. Betsy Franjo...
Willow paid attention to animals the way most people paid attention to weather. As information. A cat that wouldn't leav...
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#PoisonedAppalachia #Appalachia #AppalachianFolklore #FairFolk #FairyLore
Some light ✨🍃 #35mm #kodakkodacolor200 #appalachia #greentonesmag #somelightmag
In these mountains if you had something you wanted to leave behind you could nail it to a tree. A coin for bad luck. A p...
July 21, 1964 Before the freezer filled with vegetables, there was the front porch. Summer afternoons often meant everyo...
It was so great to talk with the brilliant @williecarverjr about Let the Forest Go, available at @kentuckypress, for @sa...
Aren't freshwater ecosystems so beautiful? 🥰 🎬🎥 Hidden Rivers film was produced in partnership with the Little Tennes...
There is a barn in the mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina that engineers still study today. The upper story overh...
ReImagine Appalachia will offer a late-summer training in video storytelling to advance regional causes. You´ll learn ho...
Most people picture a log cabin when they think of mountain architecture. But in Parkersburg West Virginia there are man...
I am calling this one “Water My Soul”, 48x24. The calmness of it was just what I needed. If you are in the Grandfather M...
There are things miners saw underground that never made it into any report. A figure at the end of a sealed tunnel. A vo...
Some songs never lose their way. ❤️🏔️ #CountryRoads #Appalachia #BluegrassMusic #LiveMusic #ChosenRoad