Appalachian History

Gathering in the mistletoe

In the country, you don’t buy mistletoe at a store. You shoot it out of a tree.

The legend began in Big Bend Tunnel, Summers County, WV, which CSX Railroad still uses today. He was the most powerful man working the rails.

A faction developed unfriendly to Mr. Carter, and in 1901, by snap methods, the company was thrown by Moore and Schley into receivers’ hands.

I sang I Wonder As I Wander for 5 years in concert before it caught on. Since then, it has been sung by soloists and choral groups worldwide.

Creek Indians lived in cabins of crude structure scattered about in small groups within the vicinity of a mound upon which the chief lived.