When Christmas Came in the Mailbox Long before Amazon trucks rumbled down our hollers, Christmas arrived in a much quieter way — tucked in the mailbox between the electric bill and the coal company coupon. It was the Sears Christmas Wish Book , better known across the mountains as the Wish Book . That catalog didn’t just show things. It showed possibility . Mama would set it on the kitchen table like it was made of glass, smoothing the cover with her apron. The kids circled l

Halloween in the Holler: Ghost Lights and Granny’s Tales Illustrated by Hearts of Appalachia Project, Inc. Fog gathers around the old tipple as lantern light flickers on a cabin porch — where every mountain story begins. Round about the time the hickory leaves start turnin’ gold and the nights get that bite in the air, folks around these mountains start talkin’ a little softer come sundown. The fog creeps low through the holler, dogs quit barkin’ without reason, and someone’s

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Why Helping Hands for Hurting People Matters in Appalachia When God calls, it’s not always loud. Sometimes it’s a quiet stirring—a burden...