Regional View

Appalachians

Ridge country, coal and timber memory, river valleys, music, small towns, and a mountain chain that still shapes the East.

Landscape Industry Culture States

The Region As A Whole

The Appalachians matter because they carry one of the country's longest continuous regional stories: mountain settlement, extraction, craft, church life, labor memory, music, hunting ground, and a fierce attachment to place.

What Holds It Together

This page should connect Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and nearby states through mountain geography, working memory, and regional cultural force.