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Appalachian Christmas Traditions
With Christmas fast approaching, Rod and Steve talk about the history and the folklore behind Christmas in Appalachia...
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2 years, 9 months ago
Tinker Dave Beaty, Union Guerrilla/Outlaw
David Crockett Beaty was a farmer in Fentress County, Tennessee...until the start of the Civil War.
He became a guerrilla fighter in that war, on the …
2 years, 10 months ago
The 1902 New River Coal Strike -The Battle of Stanaford
In 1902 coal miners struck the mines along the New River, seeking better wages and better working conditions. The strike continued until February 25,…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Fentress County Witch
In 1843 a prominent man in Jamestown, Tennessee, distributed a broadsheet, under an assumed name, accusing the wife of a tavern owner of being, among…
2 years, 10 months ago
Orlean Hawks Puckett. Appalachian Granny Woman
Granny women were the healers and caretakers of folks in Appalachia, dispensing folk remedies, serving as midwives, and even dousing for water. These…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Gun Battle of Thorn Hill, TN
At the turn of the 20th century a wealthy and politically connected man from Grainger County, Tennessee, lost a lawsuit filed by a widow and was orde…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Eccles Mine Disaster
In 1914 a series of massive explosions occurred in the Eccles Mine No. 5 near Eccles, West Virginia in Raleigh County, West Virginia, leaving over 18…
2 years, 11 months ago
Cora Wilson Stewart and the Moonlight Schools of Kentucky
At the turn of the 20th century a young woman named Cora Wilson Stewart was hired as an elementary school teacher, later becoming Rowan County school…
2 years, 11 months ago
John Forbes Nash, Jr.: Appalachia's Mathematical Genius
Today we tell the story of one of the 20th century's most brilliant mathematicians, born in Bluefield, West Virginia, and the subject of the movie "A…
2 years, 11 months ago
Dark Deeds in the Mountains: The Twisted Tale of Thomas David Carr
Thomas David Carr was born in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1846. After a childhood marked by abuse, a prison term at age 8 and an attemped poisoning of…
2 years, 11 months ago