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

Category: Oral histories

Suffice to say the young bucks gaped in awe

In early days for some reason, the little town of Keystone, WV sported one of the biggest red light districts [Cinder Bottom] in existence.

Uncle made fun of me, so I took my bottle and hid behind the room door, and he still teased me, so I crawled under the bed and finished it!

They didn’t have hot water. They didn’t have toilet paper. They didn’t have doors on the bathroom . . . the girl’s bathroom.

Dr. Isaac Monroe Cline became the world’s foremost authority on hurricanes, or tropical cyclones, as they were called in his time.

Urbin Cornett had to hide his banjo playing from his grandmother, who disapproved. Local boys tricked him into revealing his secret.

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