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

Category: North Carolina

Dr. Brinkley seemed to glow like an April Christmas tree

Even after Brinkley had been judged a charlatan, my grandfather remained his stalwart defender, says NC playwright Gary Carden.

Ray Hicks was best known for his traditional storytelling and for preserving the original Beech Mountain ‘Jack Tales’ of western NC.

What started as the Rhododendron Festival of 1927 was transformed into what we today recognize as a ‘folk festival’ by Bascom Lamar Lunsford.

But let me try to quit and some woman’s man will come a-running from yan way, and afore I knows it I’m a’tagging at his heels to help.

Mrs. Riddle raises and sells vegetables, and keeps bees, but the real business of the family is raising beef cattle.

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