Dr Anthony Harkins, Professor of History at Western Kentucky University and co-author of ‘Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy’, tells Metro.co.uk that the area is enormous.

In 1900, a political writer described the “hill-billie” as someone who “talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it ...

“I don’t believe Appalachian whites ever get to like the ... drinking draught beer and listening to sad hillbilly songs that sum up their yearnings for the hills they left behind.

As spring has officially arrived and cabin fever is setting in, the annual Hillbilly Days Festival will be filling the ...

It is already happening. Various carnival units have started filling the upper end of the Riverfill parking lot near the cinemas in preparation for this week’s Hillbilly Days Festival.