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Yeahoh, Yahoo or Bigfoot?

Folktale scholar Hugh H. Trotti suggests that Daniel Boone’s tall tales may be the origin of some of the Bigfoot tales in North America.

May 6, 2019 Alabama / Appalachian celebrities / circus

She had one husband, five children, and four legs

Myrtle Corbin was known far & wide in the late 19th century as the 4-Legged Woman. One pair belonged to her; the other to her dipygus twin.

Cartoon from the editorial page of the May 4, 1929 Richmond Times-Dispatch.

May 2, 2019 Appalachian celebrities / Appalachian music / Bluegrass / Virginia / Weather events

A dreadful cyclone that came this way

On May 2, 1929, the unusually violent storm slammed into the little community of Rye Cove, VA in the mountains of Scott County.

March 12, 2019 Appalachian celebrities / Georgia / Scouting

Juliette Low establishes first Girl Scout camp

Girl Scouts founder Juliette Low was instrumental in getting this camp underway; in fact it’s the only camp she personally helped establish.

October 12, 2018 Appalachian celebrities / Aviation / West Virginia

I learned how to push a machine without it biting me

On October 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first man to pilot the Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, above the California desert at Muroc Dry Lake Bed.

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