Footage from Junior Walker’s Youtube channel documenting surface mines. This shot is Crescent II mine in May 2024, permit S502007. “We’ll show these fascists what a couple a hillbillies can do.” – ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Mountain Dew - now the country’s third most popular soft drink - began because two Knoxville brothers needed a tasty mixer for their bourbon. That 1940s-styled Mountain Dew ...

MOUNTAIN REST — Anyone is welcome to the annual Fourth of July celebration in Mountain Rest, South Carolina, but make no mistake: this is a homecoming. Upwards of 10,000 people drive to the Blue Ridge ...

“Chicago is a country music town,” insists sculptor Rob Lentz in his artist’s statement at the Chicago Cultural Center exhibit “The Rise & Fall of the National Barn Dance.” You wouldn’t think this was ...

My college roommate was commonly known around campus as Hillbilly. Also, my father was born and raised in West Virginia, ancestral homeland of the Hillbilly Nation. My point (and I do have one) is ...

Commentator Betty Cloer Wallace opines that “Debilitating hillbilly stereotypes resound internationally and hurt us … both personally and economically” [“Fighting Back,” Commentary, May 6]. Obviously, ...

MOUNTAIN REST — The greased wooden pole proved too much of a challenge for M.J. Evans. The 7-year-old boy from Simpsonville tried twice to climb the pole without success at the Hillbilly Day festival ...

STANTON, Ky. — Her friends call it hillbilly music. They laugh. Ninth-grader Shelley Skidmore doesn’t care. She’ll sing “Blue Moon of Kentucky” if she wants. She’ll play “Boil Them Cabbage Down.” This ...