Appalachian History

Which way winter? Watch woolly worms!

Mountain folk use the stripes on the woolly worm to predict winter’s path. Black stripes predict cold/snowy weather, brown stripes, milder.

Ginseng’s hold on our consciousness has been strong for a long time. Its root is famed as being a cure for almost every sort of ill.

Alabama updated its presence in the US Capitol, swapping out a statue of a former congressman for a new bronze likeness of Helen Keller.

In 1912 Devil Anse’s son Willis demanded pharmacist EO Thornhill write him a whiskey prescription. Thornhill would not. Hatfield shot him.

The book’s appearance coincides with the anniversary of the trek of the Overmountain Men, who made their way from VA & across the Blue Ridge.

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