Appalachian History

Please welcome guest writer Fred Sauceman. Tomorrow on “Food with Fred” (noon on WJHL-TV, Johnson City, TN), Fred talks about a Kentucky soft drink that turns 85 this year: Ale-8-One. Sauceman is a longtime administrator at East Tennessee State University, has written extensively on the foodways of the South. Each fall, he teaches a course [...]

The following post appears on the Tazewell-Orange.com site, run by Joseph T. Lee III. “This site is my contribution to the preservation of the local history of Southwest Virginia and the Tri-Cities area,” Lee says. “I’ve researched a mostly overlooked industry that affects our lives every day—the soda bottling industry, which I was surprised to [...]