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

Category: North Carolina

Leo Finkelstein. Pawnbroker. Mensch.

Customers had 0 credit & couldn’t borrow from the bank. They needed cash for doctor bills, to eat. My father gave loans on practically nothing

Back in nineteen and thirteen me and my brother coon hunted lots [in the] Smokies. We had a dog named Track. He was a good one.

In 1930 the Arrowhead Monument on Highway 70 near the Southern Railway Depot was presented, with appropriate ceremonies.  

The ladies would cook dinner, & maybe 5 or 6 of them would quilt. They would put up a quilt. And then, maybe, they’d have a square dance.

It ought to be clear that poverty in the mountains of North Carolina is actually and relatively less than elsewhere in the state.

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