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

Category: Educators/teachers

The man who gave his life to name NC’s highest peak

One of the first geologic explorers of NC’s Black Mountains, Elisha Mitchell, gave his name to the region’s highest peak.

Agricultural education throughout the State, and scientific farming, have developed within the last 50 years.

Kentuckian Sarah Ann Jackson’s 1835 diary was found between the walls of an old house in Laurel County, KY.

Author James Watt Raine provides eyewitness accounts of mountain speech and folksinging, education, religion, community, politics, & farming.

Mr. Ritchie, principal of Rabun Gap Industrial School, is himself a mountain boy & struggling to place the school on a firm financial basis.

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Appalachian Innovators: Untold Stories of Invention and Ingenuity
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Heavy Rainfall Events and Their Impacts in Appalachian History
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From Root Cellars to Larders to Modern Pantries: The Evolution of Food Storage in Appalachian Homesteads
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A Journey Through Appalachian Winemaking History
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The Historic Role and Contemporary Allure of Vintage Appalachian Farm Trucks
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David Doerr on Tapping Oil at the Roots of a Family Tree
Tami on The Guineas of West Virginia
Marbles in the Graveyard - The Secret Life of Marbles on Put the corpse in the barn till spring
Brian Sherwood on 125 reasons you’ll get sent to the lunatic asylum
Kat on “Everyday” Appalachian Superstitions

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