Appalachian History

If you would quit telling yarns for three months

“Now you remember our bargain,” said the doctor. “I was to shave off my mustache if you would quit telling yarns for three months.”

Visitors love Chained Rock at Pine Mountain, Kentucky’s first state park, established in 1924. But why is there a chain around it?

He r’ared up on his hind legs, started slapping at that bar’l trying to git it offen his head. In about 3-4 minutes he rolled over, dead.

In late 1943 Dutton agreed to publish a volume of poetry titled “The Ballad of the Bones.” By January 1946, the book was in its 3rd printing.

West Virginian Bruce Crickard describes trapping a live bear, then carrying it back home strung on a pole, still live.

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