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The Howard-Turner Feud
In the 1880's and early 1890's Harlan County, Kentucky was the scene for one of the most notorious feuds aside from the one between the Hatfields and…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Bombing of the Gouge Home
On January 7, 1938, a blast rocked the little community of Hampton, Tennessee. After the smoke cleared, the home of Harmon and Pauline Gouge was in r…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Dunglen Hotel
During the post-Civil War coal boom in West Virginia, many new towns were founded to serve the coal industry and the railroads that hauled that coal …
3 years, 5 months ago
Bad Talt Hall
Talt Hall had a very interesting life. Born and raised in eastern Kentucky, he had been a Confederate soldier, a deputy sheriff, a U. S. Marshal, a f…
3 years, 5 months ago
Champ Ferguson
During the Civil War a man from Kentucky who had moved to Tennessee joined the Confederate side as a guerrilla fighter. Due to his extreme anger iss…
3 years, 6 months ago
A Civil War Tragedy in Cade's Cove
A man's family in the Smoky Mountains community of Cade's Cove is torn apart by the Civil War, with tragic results for him.
Today we share that story.…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Night Marauder of Blount County, Tennessee
In the 1920s residents of Maryville, in Blount County, Tennessee, were living in fear of being the victim of a violent home invasion by a mysterious …
3 years, 6 months ago
The Farmington Coal Mine Explosion
On November 20, 1968, there was a massive explosion at the Consol number 9 mine near Farmington, West Virginia. This explosion resulted in the death …
3 years, 6 months ago
Robert Porterfield and the Barter Theater
From its beginnings in a former church, the Barter Theater has become the premiere theatrical destination in Appalachia, starting the careers of many…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Appalachian Rip Van Winkle
In the Washington Irving story, Rip Van Winkle partakes in some boozy fun in the Catskill Mountains in New York, then falls asleep for 20 years, waki…
3 years, 7 months ago