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

Category: West Virginia

The Sandlick Sportman’s Club

Sandlick Sportman’s Club shows a different facet of the company town. The building served as a recreational retreat for company employees.

On St. Joseph’s Eve, she never forgot to perform the egg-in-a-glass ritual and would be the first one in the morning to hurry to the window.

In early days for some reason, the little town of Keystone, WV sported one of the biggest red light districts [Cinder Bottom] in existence.

That spring, I gathered up suitable pieces of scrap lumber wherever they could be found in order to construct a brooder house.

WV Swiss settlers combined the Catholic celebration of Lent with the Protestant Winterfest of Zurich, when Old Man Winter is burned in effigy.

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