Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Appalachia in the media

Roy Rogers before he was Roy Rogers

Roy Rogers wasn’t always Roy Rogers, and one of Hollywood’s most famous cowboys wasn’t raised on a western ponderosa either.

Riding the excitement over the largest selling book by a woman to date, Broadway came calling; she quickly adapted the novel to a play.

Earl Hamner’s family was the model for ‘The Waltons’ television show. A new documentary traces the storyteller’s roots in Schuyler, VA.

World premier October, 2014 at the Joy Performance Center in Kings Mountain, NC. The drama will be repeated every summer in the future.

After producing 6 documentaries, mostly on the Civil War, Kent Masterson Brown determined in 2011 to produce his next one on Daniel Boone.

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David Doerr on Tapping Oil at the Roots of a Family Tree
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