Appalachian History

We don’t own anything, not a damned thing

But what can he get? Not an earthly thing. We don’t own anything, not a damned thing he can touch, and I’ve already told him that.

Now began the building of Middlesborough, the name which Mr. Alexander A. Arthur had proposed for the town having been adopted.

A restless Confederate soldier’s ghost returns again and again to a house, looking for the money he buried there.

For 40 years James Still gathered sayings from the local people, which he almost did not allow to be published— here’s why.

There’s an old Irish myth about a man named “Stingy Jack.” He was a drunken brawler who found great enjoyment playing tricks on everyone.