MOUNTAIN LETTERS: Depression-era insights into America
John Szwed argues that Alan Lomax was one of the most influential men of the twentieth century not o...
MOUNTAIN MUSIC: In stride
One of Asheville, N.C.’s premiere songwriters has seen his career take off in ways he probably never...
Aptitude, ability, accessibility: Exploring the healing powers of the mountains
Life was looking up when Bill Bowen was 25. He’d just landed a job as a logger, and as a lifelong hu...
MOUNTAIN VOICES: Saddles, stories and strings
It’s time once again to saddle up and head out to Pigeon Forge for the Smoky Mountain city’s celebra...
Let the dandelions grow: Herbalism and traditional Appalachian folk medicine
The green growing world is both medicine cabinet and grocery store, and it’s all around us. A lot of...
Aptitude, ability, accessibility: Exploring the healing powers of the mountains
Life was looking up when Bill Bowen was 25. He’d just landed a job as a logger, and as a lifelong hunter, nothing beat getting paid to be outside in the woods every day. But less than a week later, his world took a drastic turn. A tree fell on him, and the years being confined to a wheelchair stretched out hopelessly before him.
Let the dandelions grow: Herbalism and traditional Appalachian folk medicine
The green growing world is both medicine cabinet and grocery store, and it’s all around us. A lot of people spend good money every year to rid their perfect lawns of a weed—the dandelion—that could otherwise provide them with vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D and vitamin B complex, plus zinc, iron and potassium. Dandelion is also recommended as a liver tonic or a mild laxative, and dandelions have a long history of being used for their diuretic properties, to help counter all of the salt that had to be used in preserving meats before refrigeration existed.
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