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

Category: North Carolina

Mountain Christmas

All of us was thinking Santy was dead. I kept picturing him in my mind all frozen somewhere on the mountain. Mama said how sorry she was.

For three centuries, ginseng held an important but understated role in our export economy with Asia, gathered wild, shipped by the ‘tun.’

There is much to admire about Eleanor Vance and Charlotte Yale, the exceptional women who established their Tryon workshop in 1915.

The yard was full of other people looking through the sale items and they all seemed friendly, yet I couldn’t shake the creepy feeling I had.

I heard tales of white ghosts in the cemetery across the road. I walked by a few times at night but never saw any ghosts. My brother did.

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