In early days quilting was a necessary skill and a necessity of life.

Do you like folk art, crafts, old timey music, dancing, good food and cheerful folks? You will find these wonderful things all throughout the Appalachian regions this summer and fall.

Often someone will begin telling stories. Sometimes the stories can get scary enough to send chills down the spine and make hair on the arms of listeners rise in a field of goosebumps.

Long before Europeans came to the shores of what is now northeastern America, Indian tribes of Vermont and surrounding areas were gathering sap from the sugar maple trees.

William Faulkner was one of the most important writers of the Southern literature of the United States.

The first rebellion in the American colonies began with an uprising lead by Nathaniel Bacon in 1676.