The recipients of this year’s Whippoorwill Award cover a wide range of rural people, places, and topics. The Whippoorwill is the only national prize for young-adult books that focus on rural themes, ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. When I was a child in the upstairs bedroom of my grandparents’ farm, I would ...

An illustration, drawn and engraved, of an eastern whip-poor-will, by Richard Polydore Nodder. Florilegius/Universal Images Group via Getty Images In one of the most haunting scenes of Stephen King’s ...

In one of the most haunting scenes of Stephen King’s 1975 novel Salem’s Lot, a gravedigger named Mike Ryerson races to bury the coffin of a local boy named Danny Glick. As night approaches, a ...

I hurry to my Blue Heaven" Many people remember this ballad from the 1920s, but I wonder how many people have actually have been lucky enough to hear a whippoorwill’s evening call in the forest? Among ...

"The Whippoorwill" was the name of the flat-bottomed paddle boat struck by a small tornado 40 years ago this week during the deadliest water disaster in Kansas history. Still, as they prepare to put ...

Area gardeners turned out Saturday for "A Walk in the Garden," a one-day educational seminar held at Whippoorwill Gardens in Atlanta. "Some 50 people came both to enjoy being out of doors for the ...

Forty years ago, 16 people died in Pomona Lake after a twister capsized the Whippoorwill paddle boat — the worst water disaster in Kansas history. The wreck drew national attention to the recreation ...

It's open door season on the Gulf Coast. It has been for several weeks. That means I leave the front door and the back door open as long as my wife will let me, and the windows stay open all night ...