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Get garlicky with 5 of Appalachia’s top ramps festivals.
From Pennsylvania to Tennessee, these ramps festivals celebrate the region’s favorite wild leek.
Boilo Recipe: The champagne of the coal region
An Old World recipe adapted In Appalachian Pennsylvania, boilo makes winter warm, boozy, and bright.
From coal mine to art project: The Ruins honors its history with mosaics.
Located outside Pittsburgh, "it is one of the only places in Appalachia where the coal story is told not in a museum case, but in the walls themselves.”
Down and dirty on the Hatfield-McCoy Trails
How do you commemorate the legendary Hatfield-McCoy feud? If you’re the state of W.Va., you do it with 1,000 miles of off-road recreational vehicle trails.
Pro Tip: Breakfast is better with bourbon.
Add a little bourbon to breakfast! We don't mean in a rocks glass. Maple syrup producers are now giving their classic product a kick by aging it in bourbon barrels.
Prison didn’t stop one moonshine kingpin. His family still distills 89 years later.
Rock Mount, Va.’s Twin Creeks Distillery is built on a legacy of moonshining and fiddling that dates back to the 1930s when folks from the Southern Recording Expedition pulled up to Peg Hatcher’s home, wanting to record the old-time musician’s famous fiddling. But fiddling wasn’t all Peg was known for. He was also a legendary moonshiner, and he wasn’t exactly trusting of strangers showing up at the door.
That time Appalachian crafts caused Black Friday riots.
Cabbage Patch Kids started out as charming dolls from the Appalachian mountains, but they turned into an international craze that landed people in the hospital.
Ready to escape the cold? Try caving.
From Kentucky to Virginia to Tennessee, Appalachia is graced with countless cave systems. They range from the longest in the world to one boasting a stalactite organ. There's no better time to check out the region's remarkable caves than winter.
Imbibe Your Way Around Appalachian Pa.
The Pour Tour connects 64 distillaries and related stops, including Tall Pines Distillery and the James B. Beam Pennsylvania Whiskey Heritage Center, which holds the largest, publicly-displayed collection of Pa. whiskeys.
There’s No Right Way to Flatfoot Dance
High-energy and often whip-fast, flatfoot dancing is an ancient tradition rooted in European, African, and Native American cultures, and it’s still going strong.
Mothman is real (important) in one W.V. town.
Mothman, a now legendary humanoid insect, has transformed Point Pleasant, West Virginia, attracting swarms of fans from around the world.
The untold story of Pennsylvania’s mine wars
Mining historians often focus on southern parts of Appalachia, like West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, but life was just as hard in Pennsylvania’s mountains, where mine owners resorted to lynchings, rapes, and beatings during the mine wars.
