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

Category: Tennessee

Bloody Fellow – Cherokee diplomacy in a time of war (part 1 of 2)

In the early 1790s the Cherokee nation was still strong enough to pose a serious threat to the newly emerging state of Tennessee.

After my mother died, we discovered in her safe deposit box 4 irradiated dimes, 1 for each of us. Think of the damage this souvenir did.

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

His gravestone reads “Lived alone, suffered alone, died alone,” but in the 1870’s Nick Grindstaff was Johnson County’s most colorful resident

From the divorce case between Walter E. McDaniels and Anna C. McDaniels, Knox County [TN] Fourth Circuit Court, filed July 1926.

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