But poverty is also in the eye of the beholder. For some, it's just the way life is, like for Normie Slone, who's 79 years old. She spends her days caring for her two severely disabled adult ...

Novelist Barbara Kingsolver loves living in the Appalachian hills of southwestern Virginia. But she says she feels that the region is often misconstrued by mainstream media. Her new book, Demon ...

This report by Holmes Rolston III (A.B., Davidson College; B.D., Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia; Ph.D., Edinburgh University), who is pastor of the Walnut Grove and High Point ...

The Bridge Project, funded by New York's Monarch Foundation, is expanding its unconditional cash program to Appalachia, investing $10 million to support 1,250 mothers in Kentucky, Ohio, and West ...

Poverty, as experienced on varying levels by multiple generations of a family, is at the root of Susan Tekulve’s first novel. The saga begins in War, W.Va., in 1924. War, a coal mining town in ...