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The Spanish Flu
They say that history doesn't repeat itself. While that's certainly true, it's also true that history does tend to rhyme every now and then. Today w…
5 years, 11 months ago
Mother Jones, Part Two
Today we continue the story of labor activist Mother Jones, beloved by generations of Appalachian coal miners. You can subscribe to the Stories podca…
5 years, 11 months ago
Mother Jones, Part One
A woman born in Ireland who immigrated to, first, Canada, then the United States, became a schoolteacher and dressmaker. The tragic loss of her husb…
6 years ago
Wiley Oakley
A boy's search for the spirit of his late mother in the Smokey Mountains led to a career as a Great Smoky Mountains National Park guide and a life as…
6 years ago
Tabitha Holton
Up until the late 1800's the legal profession in North Carolina was limited to men only. That changed with the admission of a spunky woman born in I…
6 years ago
Nancy Ward
One of the most well-known Cherokee on the Appalachian frontier was Nancy Ward. Today we tell the story of the Cherokee "beloved woman." The Stories…
6 years ago
The Fall
Today we tell the story of a bizarre tragedy that took place aboard a Piedmont Airlines DC-3 in the skies over western North Carolina in 1956. You ca…
6 years, 1 month ago
Tweetsie
Many years ago a railroad ran from Johnson City, Tennessee, over the mountains to the North Carolina high country in Boone. This narrow-gauge passen…
6 years, 1 month ago
The Luther Elkins Petroglyphs
Wyoming County, West Virginia, contains a set of strange rock carvings called petroglyphs on a rock ledge of a cliff overhanging the upper Clear Fork…
6 years, 1 month ago
Homer and Geneva
In 1937 the state of Tennessee passed a law that forbade marriage for anyone under the age of 16, without their parents' permission. The first case …
6 years, 1 month ago