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The Scopes Monkey Trial, Part One
In 1925 the state of Tennessee passed the Butler Act, which made it illegal to teach the theory of evolution in public schools. A group of men in Day…
5 years, 6 months ago
The Kentucky Meat Shower 2021
Today we go back and retell one of our favorite stories, about a very odd occurrence at a farm in Kentucky in the 1870s that's still a mystery today.…
5 years, 6 months ago
Cassius Marcellus Clay
Prior to the Civil War the Clay family of Kentucky was one of the nation's most prominent political families, the most well-known of which was congre…
5 years, 6 months ago
George Washington's Lost Colony
After the French and Indian War the governor of Virginia awarded veterans land in the western part of the state in payment for their service to king …
5 years, 7 months ago
Bouncing Bertha's Appalachian Ghost
In 1938 a family had an encounter with an Appalachian ghost when young Bertha Sybert's bed began to shake mysteriously every night. Soon people were …
5 years, 7 months ago
Kidnapped!
In 1949 a gang robbed the Bank of Follansbee, near Weirton, West Virginia, of $5,400.00 and made their escape. Later that night two policemen pulled …
5 years, 7 months ago
The Marshall University Plane Crash
November 14, 1970, is a date burned into the memories of the residents of Huntington, West Virginia. That's the day Marshall University lost its foo…
5 years, 7 months ago
Fire In The Hole!
New Straitsville, Ohio, was founded as a coal town in the Hocking Valley after the Civil War. Labor unrest happened in the 1880's, leading to the Gre…
5 years, 8 months ago
The Greeneville Cholera Epidemic of 1873
In 1873 a wave of cholera swept across the southeastern U.S. This epidemic hit the town of Greeneville, Tennessee, hard; so hard, in fact, that arou…
5 years, 8 months ago
The Shelton Laurel Massacre
Loyalties were divided in Appalachia, from Kentucky to Tennessee to North Carolina. And it was in western North Carolina that a Confederate army unit…
5 years, 8 months ago