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

Category: West Virginia

The Knacker Yard

Knackers take on the task of killing sick or maimed farm animals. This one thins the human herd. His job is rudely interrupted in this tale.

Buck Nichols still rests beneath tons of dirt in the collapsed tunnel. Most hikers will pass through the new tunnel, unaware of the tragedy.

Robert Ullom was unlucky around timber. When he cheated death in 1912, the car he was in careened around 3 horse drawn wagons hauling timber.

Harrison Construction Company of Pittsburgh won the contract for the nation’s heaviest airport grading job in October 1944, in Charleston, WV.

But what can he get? Not an earthly thing. We don’t own anything, not a damned thing he can touch, and I’ve already told him that.

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