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The ingredients so happily blended in this water

Thompson’s Bromine and Arsenic Springs is a good representative of a segment of our social heritage, of which only a few survive.

texas gladden teaching a ballad to child

April 23, 2009 Appalachian celebrities / Appalachian music / Ballad singers / Virginia

People who sing operettas shouldn’t tinker around with mountain music

Texas Gladden (1895-1967), was an American folk singer best known for her traditional Appalachian ballad style of singing.

December 15, 2008 Epidemics & Pandemics / Family life / Honoring the dead / Virginia

Can you imagine how it felt to be full of milk and have no child to suckle?

The whole family was sick with whooping cough, and Grandma tried valiantly to keep the baby from getting it, but with no vaccine then, it was a losing battle.

September 8, 2008 Cattle ranchers/ranching / Virginia

Two of the world’s oldest family businesses are Appalachian

Stuart Land Co. of VA ranks at #96 on the Oldest 100 Worldwide list (it’s the 17th oldest company in the USA). Henry Smith started it in 1774.

Stonewall Jackson Basketball Team 1919-20 and aerial postcard showing proposed design of college

May 23, 2008 Colleges & Universities / Virginia

Graduation time in Abingdon VA

The Bristol Herald Courier on May 23, 1922 reports on the Stonewall Jackson College commencement and other bits of daily life in Abingdon, VA

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