Appalachian History

You can’t make a livin’ at a cotton mill

Joe Sharp played mandolin for the Skyline Farms square dancers when they performed for Eleanor Roosevelt at the White House.

Thousands of journalists across America were taken in by the most astonishingly successful journalistic hoax of the early 20th century.

Gib Morgan never wrote down his tall tales before he died. Even so, the real life of Gilbert Morgan became Gib Morgan, the myth.

He was never a rich man. He could hardly be considered important at all, except for one thing. Gib Morgan was a brilliant storyteller.

Two classic wooden folk toys, the whimmydiddle & the flipperdinger, have been enjoyed by children for hundreds of years in the region.