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

Category: Kentucky

She donated her mansion to the church but then sued to get it back

Her resourcefulness emerged early when she wooed & wed a teacher from a 1 room schoolhouse in Van Lear who’d been her instructor.

Buell Kazee was a master of the high lonesome singing style of the Appalachian balladeer. He played in as many as eleven different tunings.

In August 1931, Jean Thomas & KY’s governor discussed the creation of an American Folk Song Society & an annual festival open to the public.

Jesse Stuart’s ‘Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow,’ poems that celebrate his people and the natural world, appeared in 1934 and was widely praised.

Last Monday being county court day in McKee, there was quite a large crowd gathered in from different parts of the county.

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