Old Home Place

Deep roots are a familiar theme both in my writing and among our Appalachian people. Whatever it was that brought a particular family to the mountains, some remnant of them always seemed to stay here. Last weekend I had an opportunity to visit the home site of what must have been one of my first relatives to move to the plateau. It’s an honor to still be able to find such a place and standing among scattered foundation stones I’m flooded with both sentiment and questions.

Stephen Key was bo...