Appalachian History

“Oh, I’m just taking three pigs to market” –Ohio’s Underground Railroad

Ohioans were quite active in aiding fugitive slaves on their journey north to freedom in Canada on the Underground Railroad network.

Practically all Melungeons preferred a care-free existence with members of their own clan. For many generations they seldom married outsiders.

Sara Roberta Getty (1880-1973) served as Woman’s Editor for the Cumberland [MD] Daily News from 1924 to 1942. She wrote four books of poetry.

That spring, I gathered up suitable pieces of scrap lumber wherever they could be found in order to construct a brooder house.

Granny women. Appalachia’s midwives. They are usually elder women in the community, the ones people come to with their problems.