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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, 8 months 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, 8 months 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, 8 months 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, 9 months 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, 9 months 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, 9 months 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, 9 months 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, 10 months ago
An Insurance Scheme in Pike County, Kentucky
What do you get when you mix a coal mine, explosives, and greed? Why, you get today's bit of Appalachian history, of course! Today we tell the tal…
6 years, 10 months ago
Attakullakulla and Dragging Canoe
Today we tell the story of two of the most prominent Cherokee the first settlers encountered on the Appalachian frontier, Attakullakulla and his son …
6 years, 10 months ago