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

Category: Kentucky

Criminal Syndicalism comes to Harlan, KY

Theodore Dreiser organized a committee to infiltrate KY’s Harlan coal mines to investigate allegations of abuses against striking miners.

Kentucky mountaineer Josiah Henry Combs assesses the development of Appalachian mountain ballads in this 1913 book excerpt.

Claude W. Hibbard was the first naturalist at Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park (June 1, 1934 to August 22, 1935).

Dr. Marshall B. Taylor was hanged at Wise Courthouse, VA at 2:20 this afternoon, October 27, 1893, for the murder of the Mullins Family.

In addition to her grandmother, Dora Mae reluctantly admitted that her other banjo muse came to her in the form of her “haunted banjo.”

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