Appalachian History

Linotype keypuncher at The Southwest Times

April 20, 2017 Newspaper / Virginia

A day in the life of Pulaski County VA

“F. A. Seagle was called to Marion today in connection with the undertaking department of Seagle Bros.” –a cross section of 1928 life

map of private caves surrounding Mammoth Cave National Park

April 19, 2017 Caves and spelunking / Kentucky

The Kentucky Cave Wars

Mammoth Cave showed the profit potential in cave tourism; it incited a cave war in the 1920s, at the dawn of the automobile vacation era.

illustration of TN state outline with Welsh coat of arms set over it

April 18, 2017 Immigrants / Tennessee / Welsh immigration

I wish I had never heard of Tennessee

The most famous Welsh settlement in Ameria is Brynyffynnon in eastern Tennessee, established in 1855 by Samuel Roberts of Llanbrynmair.

April 17, 2017 Cotton Mills / Tennessee / Unions

See what a break that was? We got the 40 hour week

In 1934 Cherokee workers joined textile workers across the South in a strike known as Uprising of 1934. Knoxville workers stayed out 8 weeks.

April 13, 2017 Oral histories / Tennessee

He was active as a cat, strong as a second Sampson

He was one sixteenth Indian and inherited many of their ideas as to living up to nature. He could feel the bark on a tree the darkest night and find his direction.

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