Appalachian History

Floyd’s last words? Asked by agent Melvin Purvis about the Kansas City Massacre, he snapped, “I won’t tell you anything, you son-of-a-bitch.”

You won’t let her rest in peace, fussing about her all the time

Ruth died on the operating table. Ellen Fridley returned to Big Ridge, riding on the train with her daughter in a coffin in the baggage car.

“Memories of farm life pleasant for Chestnut Ridge resident,” by Charlie Smith, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Reporter, October 2007

Dr. Bernice Eddy’s work led to safe polio vaccines through thorough testing, & provided major impetus for further research on cancer viruses.

The apparition was a pure white body floating about a yard above the ground and “about the size and length of a weaver’s beam.