Appalachian History

elizabethton workers carry strike signs 1929

The stretch-out and the strike

The stage was set for one of the first, if not THE first, strikes in the Southern textile field. March 12, 1929. 800 employees.

The old church has stood for more than a century and a quarter, and its gray walls have recorded the hardships of the sturdy pioneers and the march of progress.

March 16, 2017 Appalachian music / Ballad singers / North Carolina / Songcatchers

I were tellin’ some mount’n stories

Jane Gentry — piano teacher, Appalachian folk-music historian, weaver — was an inspiration for the movie Songcatcher.

March 15, 2017 Alabama / Feuds

The feud that erupted over John Gunter’s estate

One of the first whites to settle in Marshall County, AL was John Gunter, a Scotsman who migrated from NC after the Revolutionary War.

March 14, 2017 Politics / West Virginia

Inaugural Address of WV Gov. Henry D. Hatfield

It is indeed lamentable to relate that more than eighty per cent of our fuel and raw material is utilized outside the state.