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The Shootout in Clintwood, Virginia
In 1926, Prohibition was in full force, and the Commonwealth of Virginia had prohibition enforcement agents employed across the state, looking for il…
10 years, 1 month ago
The French-Eversole Feud
In the last part of the nineteenth century, newspapers across America were obsessed with tales of blood feuds in Appalachia, the best known of which …
10 years, 1 month ago
The 1982 Knoxville Worlds Fair and the Butcher Brothers
In 1982, Knoxville, Tennessee, hosted a Worlds Fair. The fair was a success, breaking even, but it led to the downfall of the Butcher banking empire …
10 years, 2 months ago
The Escape
The people who settled Appalachia were tough. They’d have to be to carve a home out of the forests and mountainsides of the area. In 1777, two girls,…
10 years, 2 months ago
George Went Hensley, Snake Handling Preacher
In the early 20th century, there was an awakening across Appalachia, with Pentecostal churches coming into being across the area. One of the odder br…
10 years, 2 months ago
The Swinging Bridge Collapse
Every year the Tri State Singing Convention would come to Big Stone Gap, Virginia, bringing together the most popular southern gospel groups in the w…
10 years, 2 months ago
Eric Robert Rudolph
On July 27th, 1996, the Atlanta Summer Olympic Games were rocked with an explosion which killed one person outright and led to a heart attack that ki…
10 years, 2 months ago
Ezekiel Pyles and the Confederados
On this episode of Stories, Steve and Rod tell the story of Civil War soldier and unrepentant Confederate Ezekial Pyles, who joined 20,000 other men …
10 years, 2 months ago
The Integration of Clinton High School
After the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education ruling by the Supreme Court, schools began preparing to integrate across the South, with the first sc…
10 years, 2 months ago
Baseball in Clintwood, Virginia in the 1940’s
Starting in the early part of the 20th century, coal operators discovered that forming baseball teams in each coal camp was a great way to promote un…
10 years, 3 months ago