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The Feud, Part One
Hello podcast fans! For the next several weeks Rod and I are going to be telling the story of the Hatfield and McCoy feud. This bit of Appalachian hi…
9 years, 7 months ago
A Star Faces Justice
The Loretta Lynn biopic “Coal Miner’s Daughter” was filmed in Eastern Kentucky and Southwest Virginia during the late 70’s, causing a ton of exciteme…
9 years, 7 months ago
The White Caps of Sevier County
Around the turn of the twentieth century there was a vigilante group that operated in Sevier County, Tennessee, named the “White Caps” for the white …
9 years, 7 months ago
The Donelson Expedition
In the winter of 1779-1780, a group of settlers set out from the present site of Kingsport, Tennessee, sailing down the Holston River to establish a …
9 years, 7 months ago
Jack Tales
A little change of pace on today’s podcast as Rod and Steve tell about the old Scots-Irish tradition of storytelling that was brought to the Appalach…
9 years, 8 months ago
Parson Brownlow
If you think politics are nasty now, you should have lived in southern Appalachia in the middle of the nineteenth century. That’s where a Methodist c…
9 years, 8 months ago
The Christmas Flood
Times were good in Saltville, Virginia, in 1924. It was Christmas Eve and people were wrapping up their shopping and getting ready for parties and fa…
9 years, 8 months ago
Juan Pardo
In the sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors explored the Southern Appalachians, blazing trails for an expansion of the Spanish Empire. Captain Ju…
9 years, 8 months ago
The Stories of Abner Vance
Back in early 1800’s Abingdon, Virginia, lived a Baptist minister named Abner Vance, who had a daughter named Betty. Betty was done wrong romanticall…
9 years, 8 months ago
Squeaky’s Run
On December 23, 1987, a prisoner escaped from the Federal Prison Camp in Alderson, West Virginia. But this wasn’t just any prisoner, this was a membe…
9 years, 8 months ago