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

Category: Storytelling

Two Christmastime Memories from North Carolina

A trap for Santa and a string tied round a child’s toe to wake them up when he arrived. Christmas tales from Avery County, NC.

All of us was thinking Santy was dead. I kept picturing him in my mind all frozen somewhere on the mountain. Mama said how sorry she was.

Who – or what – was it? It may have been the former owner, seeing as he was hanging around the night before. Or, was it a former performer?

Buck Nichols still rests beneath tons of dirt in the collapsed tunnel. Most hikers will pass through the new tunnel, unaware of the tragedy.

On the hottest day you could imagine a 465 pound hog got into the middle of the ridge field and flat out melted! That’s a fact.

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