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Home--General Resources for Culture:

--Appalachian Cultural Museum

http://www.museum.appstate.edu/index.shtml

This museum, sponsored by Appalachian State University, uses its site to provide an interactive tour of current exhibits. Subjects include the formation and history of the mountains, native peoples, early settlers, blacks, mountain furniture and music. Information accompanying tour is introductory; citations to resources are not provided.

--Appalachian Culture

http://www.cehs.wright.edu/resources/publications/diversity-resources/AppalachianCulture.htm

Part of a larger page on diversity hosted by Wright State University. It mainly consists of a list of selected links dealing with the Appalachian region.

--Appalachian Studies Association

http://www.appalachianstudies.org/resources/

A "selected bibliography of scholarship on Appalachia", drawn from the much larger Appalachian Studies Association site at East Tennessee State University. It concentrates on works on Appalachia from 1960 to the present, excluding works of fiction.

--Dialect of the Appalachian People

http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvh30-2.html

1969 article in the Journal of West Virginia History which addresses the source of the dialect of Appalachian people and the ways in which it is viewed.

--Digital Library of Appalachia

http://www.aca-dla.org/

Provided by a consortium of thirty-three member libraries, archives, and museums, this site provides online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region.

--Mountain Lit

http://www.mountainlit.com/

Sponsored by the Bridgeport, WV Public Library, the purpose of this site is to "collect and disseminate information about past and present West Virginia authors" and their works. An extensive list of links is included with links to cited author's web pages.

--Norbert F. Riedl Collection 1965-1975

http://www.lib.utk.edu/spcoll/manuscripts/ms0954fa.html

This site indexes the collection of documents of Norbert F. Riedl housed at the Special Collections Library of the University of Tennessee. Austrian born Riedl came to the United States in 1956 and in 1962 accepted a post as professor in the Department of Anthropology at University of Tennessee. He was a student of the folk culture of Southern Appalachia. His collection contains research files on topics such as architecture, clothing and costume, cockfighting, food and cooking, games and recreation, legends, medicines and remedies etc.

--Scottish Hillbillies and Rednecks

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/world/scottish_hillbillies.htm

Discusses the Celtic roots of several terms associated today with the American South and southern culture. Includes Hillbilly, Redneck, Cracker and Gringo.

--Spark of Life

http://news.research.ohiou.edu/perspectives/archives/9901/coal003.htm

Full text article about community theater and opera in the Appalachian region of Ohio published in the Spring/Summer 1999 issue of Perspectives: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity at Ohio University.

--Under the Smoke Glossary

http://www.apptrav.com/glossary.html

A glossary of terms and definitions from and about Appalachia provided by Appalachian Traveler Inc.