Barbara Kingsolver, whose Pulitzer-winning “Demon Copperhead” offered a variegated portrait of the region, guides readers through a literary landscape “as bracing and complex as a tumbling mountain creek.”
In some parts of America, the “intellectual leaders” fancy themselves much too deep to be understood by everyday folks like you and me. Not so in Appalachia!
An exhibit examining the myths and misconceptions behind the mountain “hillbilly” stereotype will open Saturday at the Mountain Gateway Museum & Heritage Center in Old Fort.