Appalachian History

Dr. Brinkley seemed to glow like an April Christmas tree

Even after Brinkley had been judged a charlatan, my grandfather remained his stalwart defender, says NC playwright Gary Carden.

She positively refused to return under any circumstances, preferring to cast her lot among strangers and pass her days acting the man.

People of the Appalachian Mountains are still the only cultural group in America that many people have the audacity to ridicule publicly.

The dam’s benefits may be now be seen as immeasurable in preventing loss of lives & property, but there were negatives associated with it.

After a serious accident in 1891 in Ohio, caused by the malfunction of an engineer’s watch, Webb C. Ball established unified watch standards.

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