Q&A: Appalachian Identity and the Tennessee Valley Authority

Q&A: Appalachian Identity and the Tennessee Valley Authority

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you see here? You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article and receive more conversations like this in your inbox each week. Even though he has amusingly skeptical things to say about historians, Mark T. Banker is a historian as well as a t…

$500,000 ARC Grant Supports Growth of Tennessee RiverLine in Appalachian Communities

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee RiverLine has received a $500,000 planning grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission to strengthen its regional impact and advance its mission of outdoor recreation, economic development and community vitality along the 652-mile Tennessee River. The $1 million investment includes a $500,000 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), matched by $500,000 in local funds, to the RiverTowns Program, wh…