Appalachian History

Gov. Taylor immediately wired, “The laws of Tennessee must be upheld.”

The most serious difficulty over the TN/VA stateline issue, one which threatened bloodshed, was what’s been termed the “The Water-Works War.”

‘Hickory chickens,’ or ‘dry land fish,’ have nothing to do with chicken, fish or hickory. They are morel mushrooms. They’re in season now.

At Easter, kids would hide eggs. Go around to hen nests and get a egg or two every day and hide them so you’d have some for Easter.

The Harlan County gun thugs in reality got nothing for their efforts to drive out the UMWA union. Most of them died violent deaths.

Artists who produced murals in Alabama received the award based on work submitted for other sites. 24 works were created in Alabama.