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

Category: Maryland

A childhood urge to express my innermost feelings, to record

Ruth Bear Levy wrote about how “modern artists could create masterpieces out of the sights and sounds of Lonaconing.”

It was the city’s worst flood up to that time. The March 1924 deluge left most of Westernport MD under water.

Those broad, enclosed valleys whose meandering streams are often bordered by rather marshy ground are known in Garrett County as Glades.

It is likewise commonly reported that spirits of turpentine applied plentifully to the wound will draw out the poison and effect a cure.

There is a town in Maryland’s westernmost county of Garrett that got its name from a happy accident.

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