Appalachian History

The Singin’ Fiddler of Lost Hope Hollow, a persona

Jean Thomas ‘discovered’ him, became his agent, and rebranded him Jilson Setters, the Singin’ Fiddler of Lost Hope Hollow.

I looked at a letter recommending that Frenchy LaRue be returned stateside. “What were you deported for?” “Oh, I was one of Al Capone’s gang.”

Zane Grey is rightly known today as the “Father of the Adult Western.” He wrote more than 80 books featuring rich western imagery.

‘Sure-shot Bessie,’ from “Bundle of Troubles, and other Tarheel Tales,” by Workers of the Writers Program of the WPA in North Carolina.

It’s no church I’ve had sight of here in Knoxville where the ones coming in and out ain’t dressed up fit to kill.