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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 …
6 months, 2 weeks 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…
6 months, 2 weeks 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…
6 months, 3 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…
7 months 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 …
7 months, 1 week ago
Appalachia's Blues Brothers: Stick and Brownie McGhee
This week, Steve and Rod tell the story of Granville “Stick” McGhee and Walter “Brownie” McGhee, two brothers from East Tennessee whose music helped …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Off To See the King: The 1730 Cherokee Mission to London
In 1730, seven Cherokee leaders traveled from their Appalachian home to the heart of London. Hand-picked by a Scottish adventurer named Alexander Cum…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Cursed Rails of the Big Bull Tunnel
The Big Bull Tunnel in Wise County, Virginia looks like any other railroad tunnel, just a simple cut through a hillside. Looks, though, can be decei…
8 months ago
The Dark Shadows of Blue Ridge, Georgia
Today we tell not one but two stories, both involving the same community in Fannin County, Georgia.
In 1864 two men, brothers-in-law Elisha Stanley a…
8 months, 1 week ago
Outlaws of the High Country: The Story of the Eller Gang
This week Rod and Steve tell the story of a gang of robbers who cast a long shadow over Ashe County, North Carolina in the unsettled years after the …
8 months, 2 weeks ago