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

Category: Kentucky

Appalachian Sound Archives Fellowship 2010-2011

App State grad student Meredith Doster Edgerton researched the shape note singing tradition at two churches in Watauga County, NC.

Not all of us CAN live to be old, or WANT to, and so arrive earlier at that entrance into the next world. Lord, I’ll stay long as you need me.

She positively refused to return under any circumstances, preferring to cast her lot among strangers and pass her days acting the man.

Mount Vernon Signal [Rockcastle County KY] April 09, 1909 offers up a day in the life of Mt. Vernon. Folks died, bought hogs, played baseball.

Born in Viper, Kentucky, Jean Ritchie came from a family of musicians who have preserved folk traditions for generations.

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