Appalachian History

Henry Reed ‘s tunes are now in wide circulation among younger American fiddlers. Perhaps the most widely circulated is “Over the Waterfall.”

But the nights belonged to youth

The day’s events were only to warm up for the square dance at night. The fiddlers tuning up. The figure caller strutting around.

Lucy Furman accomplished, between 1934 and 1938, a task that seemed at first impossible of accomplishment: outlawing the steel trap.

In this interview, Harriette Arnow, author of ‘The Dollmaker,’ discusses her time spent with the hill people of Kentucky.

WV entrepreneur Donald F. Duncan (1892-1971) had never heard of the yo-yo until 1928, when he encountered Pedro Flores in California.