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The Night They Burned Superman in West Virginia
In 1948, a small town in West Virginia became the center of a growing national fear over the perceived evil influence of comic books. There, in the …
2 months ago
Worse than Savages: The Bloody Legacy of Kirk's Raiders
George Washington Kirk was a carpenter from Greene County, Tennessee.
He was also a feared and hated Union soldier/bushwhacker during the Civil War, o…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Long Walk Home: The Harrowing Journey of Mary Draper Ingles
In 1755, the frontier settlement of Draper’s Meadow was shattered by a brutal Shawnee raid in which many settlers were killed and the survivors captu…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
James Harrod: The Kentucky Pioneer and his Mysterious Disappearance
James Harrod was a soldier, a longhunter, an explorer and the man who founded Kentucky’s first permanent pioneer settlement. But in February 1792, th…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Woman-Hating Hermit of Kentucky
Roger Tandy Quisenberry had every advantage in life: wealth, education, and opportunity, but chose a path few could understand. From the California G…
3 months ago
The 1895 Flat Top Coal Strike
In the spring of 1895, a sudden wage cut swept through the Flat Top-Pocahontas coal fields along the Virginia/West Virginia border, touching off one …
3 months, 1 week ago
Exploring the Cumberland: The Story of Kasper Mansker
Born aboard a ship of immigrants in the Atlantic Ocean, Kasper Mansker became a longhunter, venturing out to explore the wilderness of Kentucky and T…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Old Red Fox of East Tennessee: Daniel Ellis
Daniel Ellis of Carter County, Tennessee was a wagon maker who became one of the most successful guides of the Civil War. Living behind Confederate l…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Von Shores: The Daredevil Pilot of the Cumberlands
This week, Rod and Steve tell the story of Ray Vaughn Shores, better known as Von Shores, an Appalachian aviator and popular aerial daredevil in Sout…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Kirkland Bushwhackers
This week, we tell a story from the lawless mountain border between western North Carolina and east Tennessee during the Civil War. As great battles …
4 months ago