Appalachian History

The blacksmith was a man-of-all-work

Ostensibly the people who gathered at the blacksmith shop had come on business, but one was in no hurry to leave the conversation.

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.

One of Noble County’s more baffling murder cases began on November 5, 1905, when the family of William Leisure found him shot dead.

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

Tennessean George W. Christians, chief officer of the fascist Crusader White Shirts, was an odd combination of comedian and sinister revolutionist.