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

Category: Great Smoky Mountains

When my stories are true, why, I don’t yodel to the end of the story

Joseph Sargent Hall interviewed Wiley Oakley in the Great Smoky Mountains in 1939. Oakley had a 5th-grade education but was street smart.

From northern Georgia to southwestern Virginia, there are scores of such grassy peaks sprinkled along the Appalachian mountain chain.

Suppose that, one of these days when I’m out hunting, I should stumble upon a moonshine still in full operation–what would happen?

Even hardened historians grow weepy when confronted with the hard luck story of Smoky Mountain Railroad—a fit subject for Voltaire’s Candide.

Back in nineteen and thirteen me and my brother coon hunted lots [in the] Smokies. We had a dog named Track. He was a good one.

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