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

Category: North Carolina

You never seen so many eggs in your life as I had

At Easter, kids would hide eggs. Go around to hen nests and get a egg or two every day and hide them so you’d have some for Easter.

Jane Gentry — piano teacher, Appalachian folk-music historian, weaver — was an inspiration for the movie Songcatcher.

Modern carpenters would not know what “cracking” a log was; and yet, the pioneer artisans of old had to make their boards by that method.

“Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley.” The most famous murder ballad in American folk music history. You know the Kingston Trio’s version.

The town’s Latin name means ‘Vale of the Cross,’ chosen because of the cross-like form of three local streams at their junction.

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