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

Category: Georgia

He could talk as much as he could fiddle

Fiddlin’ John Carson made his name recording “Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane” in 1923. How did he get there?

Our socks were filled with stick candy, rag dolls, sling shots, crow calls, whistles, apples, oranges and a few funny looking nuts.

Two North Georgia farmers compete to see who can tell the best version of a local ghost story. “Fat or lean, take him as he is!”

It’s all too easy to forget that in the early part of the 20th century, there simply were no deer to be had in the northern part of Georgia.

North Georgia Cherokees had high regard for their neighbor Dr. Richard Banks, who treated many of them for the ravages of smallpox.

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