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

Category: North Carolina

The house that makes broomsticks stand on end

GO to Mystery Hill at Blowing Rock, NC! SEE people stand on 45-degree angles! WATCH water roll uphill! Mystery after mystery!

My grandparents had a molasses mill; they made molasses. I used to help make them, too. They made molasses to sell.

Ku Klux Klan pitch letter sent to Edgar M. Lyda, Chairman of the Buncombe County Commissioners and Finance at the time he received it.

I know the grocery business and I know the meat business from top to bottom. I do all the buying for the meat counter and cut it and weigh it.

In 1948 Buckminster Fuller aimed to produce a geodesic dome with a forty-eight foot diameter at Black Mountain College.

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