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

Category: Love and romance

Lovesick in Blacksburg

Olivia Tutwiler had her pick of the 1919 crop of VPI boys. The baddest of the bad boys there stole her heart. Could she win his?

That ghosts walk & supernatural powers rule on Halloween is the ancient superstition used to excuse the mad gayety of the modern celebration.

She said her husband understood from before they married that Earl was her first love and would always be in her heart.

These ‘Greatest Generation’ letters are windows into what it means to be human, in love, and dedicated to making the world a better place.

From the divorce case between Walter E. McDaniels and Anna C. McDaniels, Knox County [TN] Fourth Circuit Court, filed July 1926.

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