Appalachian History

Cornbread or beaten biscuits? Breaking the food code

When you sit down to your Thanksgiving meal, will the dressing on your plate be made with cornbread or wheat bread?

W.C. Handy was quick to acknowledge that he did not invent the blues, but merely transcribed them and presented them to a worldwide audience.

Amelia Earhart flew into the Anderson, SC airport in her Pitcairn Autogiro PCA-2 on November 14, 1931 and attracted over 1,000 spectators.

Jim had heard a lot about Helen in his letters from Margaret. Meeting her was part of the reason he drove all the way down there in a $75 car!

Mt. Airy, NC was ‘the granite city’ long before it became known as Andy Griffith’s Mayberry. The quarry can be seen by astronauts from space!