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

Category: Kentucky

Worthy of a place in this cabinet of valuables

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

They retreated the mine back almost to the drift mouth, to the entrance of the mine, so [the Blue Diamond Mine] was quite a successful.

As he rode into exile Old Man Lige Wright thanked God that those enemies from behind had knocked him senseless with his own gun.

Folktale scholar Hugh H. Trotti suggests that Daniel Boone’s tall tales may be the origin of some of the Bigfoot tales in North America.

At the little country stores where the road crews gather for a quart of milk and a moon pie, that’s where you find some real historians.

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