Appalachian History

They’d get up and swing around on the trapeze

The man never made any money out of the water circus. Well, I’ll tell you, he went down the river, made all the river towns aware.

Dr. William Henry Burritt left his mountaintop estate to Huntsville, AL in 1955, and in doing so, provided that city’s first public museum.

It was in the summer of 1897 that I heard of an outdoor revival meeting and decided to attend for two or three days.

I once heard a bishop say “Whipping does not always conquer a child’s spirit, but I never have known a dash of ice water on his spine to fail”.

Thrifty farm wives nationwide had known for years that the common cotton bag— fondly nicknamed chicken linen—was a great source of fabric.