Appalachian History

All the machinery stopped and the lights went out

Before the days of TVA & large power companies, electricity was supplied to rural areas by such pioneering men as Arthur Abernathy Miller.

The ice man became an American institution, delivering ice as needed when consumers posted the ‘Ice Today’ sign in their windows.

Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th U.S. President and Union general-in-chief during the Civil War, grew up the son of an Ohio tanner.

Uncle made fun of me, so I took my bottle and hid behind the room door, and he still teased me, so I crawled under the bed and finished it!

This case is a one of a kind in the American judicial system … in which the word of a ghost helped to solve a crime and convict a murderer!