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

Category: North Carolina

Nothing Dark Follows Me Now … But

NC writer/historian Gary Carden speaks from personal experience about depression in an Appalachian context.

Appalachian State University students collect remembrances of mountain life as it used to be at the headwaters of the New River’s North Fork.

World premier October, 2014 at the Joy Performance Center in Kings Mountain, NC. The drama will be repeated every summer in the future.

The story of Frankie Silver will be retold in Burke County, NC again this weekend in a one-woman play entitled “Silver Shadows…a birthin'”.

On June 8, 1917, the first of 2,300 Germans arrived by train at Hot Springs to begin life in a World War I internment camp.

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