Moyers interviewed Collins, Cash, opera singer Jessye Norman, Appalachian folk musician Jean Ritchie and her family, white Sacred Harp singers in Georgia, black Sacred Harp singers in Alabama, and a prison choir at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville.

Boone is the county seat of Watauga County and the home of Appalachian State University.

Boone is the home of Appalachian State University, a constituent member of the University of North Carolina.

Both the overall age distribution and the median age are driven by the presence of the local university Appalachian State.

A smaller newspaper, The Appalachian, is Appalachian State University's campus newspaper published twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Located in the glaciated Appalachian Plateau area of Central New York State, midway between Syracuse and Binghamton, this predominantly rural county is the southeastern gateway to the Finger Lakes Region.

Six other North Carolina institutions made the list — Appalachian State, East Carolina, NC State, UNC-Asheville, UNC-Chapel Hill, and UNC-Wilmington.

Today UNCG competes in the Southern Conference, which is made up of 12 schools across five states in the Southeast including Appalachian State University, Elon University, Davidson College, and Western Carolina University.

It has also garnered considerable national attention from its recent success in these sports: in particular, three-time Division I NCAA Football champion Appalachian State Mountaineers, who stunned the fifth-ranked Michigan Wolverines 34 – 32 on September 1, 2007 ; and from the Davidson Wildcats, who reached the Elite Eight in the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament by upsetting power programs Gonzaga ( a mid-major school which became a power program in the 2000s ), Georgetown and Wisconsin.

The western half contains Macedonia Brook State Park, the Schaghticoke Indian Reservation, as well as a section of the Appalachian Trail.

Northwards from Kingsport, US-23 continues north to Portsmouth, Ohio, as the Corridor B of the Appalachian Development Highway System, and beyond to Columbus, as the Corridor C. In conjunction with the Columbus-Toledo, Ohio corridor formed by Interstate 75, U. S. 23, and State Route 15, I-26 forms part of a mostly high-speed four-or-more-lane highway from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Coast at Charleston, South Carolina.

Pulaski County is the site of Claytor Lake State Park, which is located on Claytor Lake, a, long man made lake on the New River created for a hydroelectric project of Appalachian Power Company.

* WKBC-FM ( 97. 3 FM )-Adult contemporary ( Hot AC ) music and flagship station for football and basketball games of nearby Appalachian State University.

* Appalachian State University

Boone Creek, the main creek that runs through Boone and the Appalachian State University campus is still nicknamed Kraut Creek since it is said that the creek used to smell of sauerkraut juice coming out of the plant.

The overall age distribution and median age are greatly affected by the presence of Appalachian State University in Boone.

* Tishomingo State Park is located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Tishomingo County, Mississippi, north of Tupelo, Mississippi.

The Appalachian Festival occurs every year on the third weekend in September on Frostburg State University's upper quad.

Home to Crawford Notch State Park, which is noted for a rugged wilderness beauty, the town is crossed by the Appalachian Trail.

According to the Office of the New Jersey State Climatologist at Rutgers University, the Northern climate zone covers about one-quarter of New Jersey and consists mainly of elevated highlands and valleys which are part of the Appalachian Uplands.

According to the Office of the New Jersey State Climatologist at Rutgers University, the Northern climate zone covers about one-quarter of New Jersey and consists mainly of elevated highlands and valleys which are part of the Appalachian Uplands.

* Appalachian State University Branch

As Sandburg said at the time: `` It is as ancient as the medieval European ballads brought to the Appalachian Mountains, it is as modern as skyscrapers, the Volstead Act, and the latest oil well gusher ''.

Adjoining the Cumberland Plateau region on the southeast is the Appalachian Valley ( locally known as Coosa Valley ) region, which is the southern extremity of the Appalachian Mountains, and occupies an area within the state of about.

In the Appalachian Valley region the Coosa River is the principal river ; and in the Piedmont Plateau, the Tallapoosa River.

* WASU 90. 5 FM is a college radio station run from the Appalachian campus.

The northern portion of Cape Breton Island is dominated by the Cape Breton Highlands, commonly shortened to simply the " Highlands ", which are an extension of the Appalachian mountain chain.

The northernmost part of the state is part of the Appalachian Piedmont with hills and rolling surfaces.

The building is a designated stop along the Appalachian Trail.

* Appalachian dulcimer, a fretted, plucked musical instrument which is also referred to as a " mountain dulcimer ", " lap dulcimer ", " fretted dulcimer ", or " hog fiddle "

Sharp also worked in America, recording the traditional songs of the Appalachian Mountains in 1916 – 1918 in collaboration with Maud Karpeles and Olive Dame Campbell and is considered the first major scholar covering American folk music.

Cazenovia Lake to the east, although smaller, is sometimes called " the twelfth Finger Lake ," because it is similar in shape, located in Appalachian hill terrain, with a historic village linked to other Finger Lakes by US 20.

Owing to its strongly stereotypical connotations, the term is frequently considered derogatory, and so is usually offensive to those Americans of Appalachian heritage.

Hillbilly Days is an annual festival held in mid-April in Pikeville, Kentucky celebrating the best of Appalachian culture.

The Champlain Valley is the northernmost unit of a landform system known as the Great Appalachian Valley, which system stretches from Quebec to Alabama.

The Champlain Valley itself is a physiographic section of the larger Saint Lawrence Valley, which in turn is part of the larger Appalachian physiographic division.

* 1983 – The U. S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee ( ultimately found to be 4. 2 million pounds ), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.

As one of the largest counties in Tennessee, Sevier County's terrain varies from one of the most rugged portions of the Appalachian Mountains to the river valley of the French Broad River and Douglas Lake.

The county is home to the " Mineral City of the World ", Spruce Pine and Roan Mountain which includes the world's largest natural rhododendron garden, and the longest stretch of grassy bald in the Appalachian range.

Located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Rome is the largest city and the county seat of Floyd County, Georgia, United States.

The Haile Gold Mine, where gold was discovered in 1825 is three miles from town and was at one time the largest single producer of gold in the Appalachian region.

As one of the largest cities in the Appalachian region, Knoxville has positioned itself in recent years as a repository of Appalachian culture and is one of the gateways to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Appalachian Caverns — the largest show cave in East Tennessee — and Boone Lake are located just south of Blountville.

The Trail Days festival is held around the middle of May each year and draws in excess of 20, 000 tourists, making it the largest single gathering of Appalachian Trail hikers anywhere.

The town, which is located in the midst of the Appalachian Mountains, is best known as the site of a popular wintertime tubing resort known as Hawksnest, which claims it has the largest tubing facility on the East Coast, and some of the town's year round residents earn their living at the resort.

Galax is a small town that is home to the Old Fiddlers ' Convention, held since 1935 ; it is the largest and oldest festival of old-time Appalachian music in the country.

In only his second game he had managed the second largest drop from the AP ranking narrowly missing the number one spot held by Michigan after losing the season opener to Appalachian State just threes years before.

By 1900, the largest sawmill in the world was operated by the Atlantic Lumber Company in Georgetown, South Carolina, using logs floated down the Pee Dee River from as far as the edge of the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina.

The cove hardwood forests in the range's lower elevations are among the most diverse ecosystems in North America, and the Southern Appalachian spruce-fir forest that coats the range's upper elevations is the largest of its kind.

In his final season, # 5 Michigan lost its home opener to Football Championship Subdivision member Appalachian State in one of college football's largest upsets.