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When a Final Wish Became a Circus: The Story of the Sunshine Woman
This week’s story is the bizarre true tale of Leila Davidson Hansell, known as "The Sunshine Woman," and the controversy surrounding her final restin…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
The Tennessee Moonshiner the Law Couldn’t Hold: The Story of Hut Amerine
Born in Blount County, Hut Amerine grew into one of East Tennessee’s most notorious moonshiners. After the Civil War, federal whiskey taxes ignited a…
9 months ago
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On: The Story of Appalachian Piano Man Roy Hall
James Faye Hall, better known as Roy Hall, was born in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, in 1921. He died in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee in 1984.
Between those da…
9 months, 1 week ago
The Tally War: The 1906 North Carolina Railroad Riot
We’ve told the story of labor conflicts from Harlan, Kentucky to Blair Mountain, West Virginia. This week, we tell a story that’s not set in the Kent…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
The Lost Town of Mortimer, North Carolina
A once thriving lumber and mill town in the mountains of western North Carolina, Mortimer rose fast, becoming prosperous…until it was washed away twi…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
A Christmas Morning Disaster: The 1882 Millboro, Virginia Train Wreck
This week Steve and Rod tell the story of a Christmas morning that ended in heartbreak instead of celebration.
In 1882, a passenger train and a freigh…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
The Long-Haired Red-Bearded Beast of Georgia: John Pemberton Gatewood
John Pemberton Gatewood was a notorious Confederate bushwhacker/guerrilla leader.
Born in Fentress County, Tennessee, in 1844, Gatewood's life took …
10 months ago
Moonshine, Murder, and Legend: The Story of Lewis Redmond
Major Lewis Redmond’s story sounds like it comes from a 19th century dime novel. He was a Carolina moonshiner, an outlaw and, thanks to actually bei…
10 months, 1 week ago
Emma Gatewood's Walk in the Woods
In 1955, at the age of 67, Emma Gatewood became the first woman to solo thru-hike the Appalachian Trail, from Springer Mountain in Georgia to the top…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Greed, Gold and Deception in Cocke County TN: The 1909 Murder of A. J. Slagle
In 1909, a Johnson City businessman named A.J. Slagle was lured by promises of buried Spanish gold hidden in a Cocke County house. What began as a de…
10 months, 3 weeks ago