Storyteller Elizabeth Ellis says that sharing stories isn't a job - it’s a calling. Now 80-years-old, Ellis grew up in Tennessee and Kentucky. Ellis was interviewed at John C. Campbell Folk School as part of BPR’s Appalachian Women’s Oral History Tour in partnership with Foxfire Museum.

BPR visited the John C. Campbell Folk School as part of our Appalachian Women’s Oral History Tour and were able to pop into some of the classes taking place on campus, including Dr. Kathy Bullock’s class on “African American and Appalachian Musical Connections.”

BPR hosted a table at WCU's Mini-Mountain Heritage to collect and share the stories of Appalachian women.

A new partnership between BPR and the Foxfire Museum is collecting oral histories about the experiences of Appalachian women. The partnership is in conjunction with a new book – “The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South.”Foxfire Museum curator and director of education Kami Ahrens edited the book. The final chapter features Kaye Carver Collins, a resident of Rabun County, Georgia whom Ahrens said is emblematic of Foxfire.

Blue Ridge Public Radio is partnering with Foxfire Mountain Heritage Museum to launch a campaign to collect oral histories about women in Appalachia. The effort coincides with the release of a new book, "The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South."