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 ...

Hillbilly Days is back! The annual festivities kicked off Thursday in downtown Pikeville for another year of good times for a ...

My ancestors were Appalachian hillbillies – Scots-Irish settlers with large families and quick tempers. Family clans separated into smaller groups called sets, derived from the Scots septs.

“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.