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

Category: Oral histories

Tapping Oil at the Roots of a Family Tree

“Dad pretended to be serious when he joked that he, I, & the Coles were related to Daniel Boone,” says Janice Cole Hopkins, who in fact is!

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

Keeping alive mountain heritage through an oral history project, documentary film, public programs, & student programs in the public schools.

Matt Ravenscroft inspires students to document their town/regional history in his Historical Methods Research class.

Stories of Mountain Folk is an ongoing all-sound oral history program produced by Catch the Spirit of Appalachia.

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