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

Category: Preachers

A flamboyant man who in many ways resembled Elmer Gantry

Unaware of the kind of novel that Elmer Gantry was to be, he boasted that the central character was to be modeled on himself.

When I threw back the covers, a whole battalion of bedbugs scurried for cover into a hole in the old straw mattress.

Sparky Rucker tells a ‘preacher’s tale’ about his grandfather, Elder John Rucker. How do you banish ghosts from a church service?

The Reverend Craig Chess is a young minister with a problem: his first church assignment is located in the Tennessee Smoky Mountains.

An excerpt from Michael Abraham’s newly published “Harmonic Highways; Motorcycling Virginia’s Crooked Road.”

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