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

Category: Works Progress Administration

He is now in the C.C. Camp

He got to go to the C.C. Camp by his mother taking him to the welfare office and asking that he be signed up.

The Pack Horse Library Project (est. 1935) aimed to provide reading materials to rural portions of Eastern Kentucky with no library access.

He r’ared up on his hind legs, started slapping at that bar’l trying to git it offen his head. In about 3-4 minutes he rolled over, dead.

Mountain dialect reflects the Anglo-Saxon origin of the mountain people; obsolete words found in Shakespeare and the KJV Bible are common.

‘Sure-shot Bessie,’ from “Bundle of Troubles, and other Tarheel Tales,” by Workers of the Writers Program of the WPA in North Carolina.

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