October 2010 - Appalachian History

The Brown Mountain Lights

In 1913, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist visited, reporting that the lights were the result of train headlights shining over the mountain.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church’s most unlikely claim to fame comes from red streaks on the mausoleum. They’re simply not supposed to be there.

The focus on Edith, at her birthplace museum in Wytheville, is to tell the story of this First Lady in her early years.

On that Sunday evening in 1927, one-armed deputy Chap Osborne approached the vehicle he had just stopped, with his gun drawn.