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

Category: Writers

When you get into your head to go sparking, go over the mountain

For 40 years James Still gathered sayings from the local people, which he almost did not allow to be published— here’s why.

Jesse Stuart’s ‘Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow,’ poems that celebrate his people and the natural world, appeared in 1934 and was widely praised.

Verna Mae Slone (1914-2009) relates the story of how her father Isom ‘Kitteneye’ Slone proposed to her mother, Sarah Owens Slone.

Author James Watt Raine provides eyewitness accounts of mountain speech and folksinging, education, religion, community, politics, & farming.

“Cornbread and Beans for Breakfast,” published 1995, portrays the Depression era scene from James Milton Hanna’s childhood in Cherokee, AL.

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