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

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Book Review: “Memories of a Cherokee Boyhood”

He was born into a storied but impoverished family on the Eastern Band of Cherokee’s Qualla Boundary. Jr.’s memoir is a remarkable story.

The story of 3 days in the summer of 1936, as a government-built dam is about to flood an Appalachian town, and a little girl goes missing.

From 1959-1970, Betty Hornbeck wrote a weekly column for the Republican-Delta Newspaper in Buckhannon, WV entitled “West Virginia Whirligig”.

The Cult of Individualism explores the rarely discussed cultural differences leading to today’s seemingly intractable political divides.

VA newspaper columnist/author Phil James focuses on the lives of regular countryside folk with his two books ‘Secrets of the Blue Ridge.’

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