Appalachian History

Embarrassed wife has Oakland’s first doctor executed

Ann Johnson believed she deserved more from life than to work in a general store owned by her husband, Cornelius, & live in the backwoods.

I cannot say for certain that they were love interests, but in one photo from May of 1926, the two are sitting very close together.

Robert Carlyle Byrd, the longest-serving member of Congress in US history, who questioned the state’s powerful coal industry, died Monday.

We open today’s show with a look at the Collins Company, “one of the most important business enterprises of modern Pennsboro [WV].”

The characters who created Knoxville now lie in a hilly, craggy old graveyard that sits just north of downtown called Old Gray Cemetery.

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