Appalachian History

Barbara Frietchie’s story has been immortalized in plays, poems, & Frederick, MD lore. John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem put the town on the map.

A school for subversives and Communists?

Highlander Folk School for years was the only place in the South where white and African-American adults could live and work together.

Dr. Isaac Monroe Cline became the world’s foremost authority on hurricanes, or tropical cyclones, as they were called in his time.

Georgia Marble Company stone is found in the NY Stock Exchange annex, the Lincoln Memorial & the 24 columns of the US Capitol’s east front.

Viola Brown Black wrote this poem about her childhood home, built in 1909 by her father. It still stands on Bell St. in Hiawassee, GA.