May 2012 - Appalachian History

Then I did a foolish, impulsive thing. I wrote him that I would wait.

It was a sweet letter in which he pleaded with me to wait til he came home to make a final decision. Then I did a foolish thing.

We open today’s show with author George A. Mosel’s appreciation of Steubenville, OH at the turn of the 20th century.

Excerpt from newly published book ‘The Girl from Stretchneck Holler: Inside Appalachia,’ by Betty Dotson-Lewis and Kathleen Colley Slusher.

We open today’s show with a 1962 interview with Sanders Russell, harness racer who won the famed Hambletonian at the age of 62.

Filmmaker Elaine McMillion discusses her latest project, “Hollow,” an interactive, online documentary on the lives of McDowell County, WV.