September 2017 - Page 3 of 4 - Appalachian History

Ginseng, the curious rootstock

The U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service mandates that states allowing wild ginseng’s export have protective regulations in place.

Sidna Allen & Wesley Edwards, members of the outlaw gang who murdered Judge Massie and others at Hillsville Court House were arrested today.

Melville Davisson Post’s third book ‘Dwellers in the Hills’ (1901) is a romance of the old WV cattle country in which his youth was passed.

Nannie Kelly Wright was probably the only woman ironmaster in US history. Her father helped form Cincinnati’s White Collar packet line.

I never think of Shea’s Fork without my mind reverting back to that dismal, heartless day in the long ago.