Appalachian History

“I can guarantee there wasn’t a deer in Ohio, not a single deer”

When you look back into the mid 1800s, everybody was farming, everybody was cutting down timber for lumber. 100 years of destruction.

Before NASCAR, there were moonrunners: a delivery guy in a souped up car with a 200-gallon moonshine tank, driving at breakneck speeds.

The character we know today emerged when 27 year old Sarah Ophelia Colley was producing an amateur musical comedy in Baileyton, AL.

Just as the mail order catalog began to give mountaineers access to consumer products, a regional movement to market traditional crafts began.

When you’re talking with family, are you liable to let down your guard & use a bit more Appalachian English & a bit less Standard English?

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