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

Category: Kentucky

They would work up the apples the next day

When apples were ripe, they would peel a couple of bushels at night by kerosene lamplight, then they would work them up the next day.

The Parkers of Lawrence and Pike County Kentucky grew with a community obligated to raise up their children in the “good old fashioned way.”

Swift’s Silver Mine has been searched for in every county in eastern Kentucky. Was there ever such a mine? If so, did it really produce?

For all the jokes about KFC’s Colonel Harlan Sanders or the ABA’s “Kentucky Colonels,” the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels is for real.

Virginia’s governor issued Land Grants for services rendered. A headright system offered 50 acres to anyone who paid his own way to the state.

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