2018 - Page 47 of 51 - Appalachian History

Uncle Nathe wuzn’t no hand to set at home by hissef

Olive Tilford Dargan began her literary career in 1904 with the publication of poetic dramas and lyric poetry.

The stork delivering babies? The stork’s association with babies seems to have originated in northern Germany centuries ago.

Before the days of TVA & large power companies, electricity was supplied to rural areas by such pioneering men as Arthur Abernathy Miller.

The ice man became an American institution, delivering ice as needed when consumers posted the ‘Ice Today’ sign in their windows.

Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th U.S. President and Union general-in-chief during the Civil War, grew up the son of an Ohio tanner.