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When the war ended, all the coal mine whistles blowed

The school bells rung, and the peoples’ wonderin’, well they hadn’t heard yet that the Armistice was signed.…and then they all celebrated.

April 13, 2017 Oral histories / Tennessee

He was active as a cat, strong as a second Sampson

He was one sixteenth Indian and inherited many of their ideas as to living up to nature. He could feel the bark on a tree the darkest night and find his direction.

April 10, 2017 Easter traditions / North Carolina / Oral histories

You never seen so many eggs in your life as I had

At Easter, kids would hide eggs. Go around to hen nests and get a egg or two every day and hide them so you’d have some for Easter.

Shay Locomotive and Fully Loaded Log Carts on a Bridge Over the Cherry River in Nicholas County WV

April 4, 2017 Epidemics & Pandemics / Oral histories / West Virginia

He placed the tiny baby in a cigar box and walked to the Godfreys

Fred Bennett was a fireman on the logging train that ran through Curtin, WV. Doc Godfrey was the engineer on the same train. They shared a terrible tragedy in 1919.

January 3, 2017 Family life / Moonshiners / Oral histories / Tennessee

Seems like me and Calvin ain’t never done a thing ever but work hard

It’s no church I’ve had sight of here in Knoxville where the ones coming in and out ain’t dressed up fit to kill.

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