Fall brings sights, sounds and smells to my community in West Virginia. There are jar flies at night and on weekends they are cooking apple butter at the church.

It can take years for underground coal miners to qualify for black lung benefits. Then they have to do it all over again.

Thousands of poor Appalachian students have found a way to Berea College. I was just one of them.

Dailies are on hard times, but weekly newspaper readership is hard core. Betty Dotson-Lewis profiles the 127-year-old paper that provoked ten thousand clippings.