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

Category: Tennessee

East Tennessee was considered the ‘pits’ of the mission

Everyone in the headquarters seemed to pity me. East Tennessee District was considered the ‘pits’ of the mission.

A restless Confederate soldier’s ghost returns again and again to a house, looking for the money he buried there.

“Memories of farm life pleasant for Chestnut Ridge resident,” by Charlie Smith, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Reporter, October 2007

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

The American Medical Association immediately issued a warning, through newspapers and radio, that Elixir Sulfanilamide was toxic and deadly.

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