Appalachian History

Barney Fife’s hometown

Don Knotts long before Mayberry, as the President of his sophomore class at Morgantown High School in Morgantown, WV 1940.

Al Capp’s comic strip starred Li’l Abner Yokum, the lazy, dumb, but good-natured & strong hillbilly who lived in Dogpatch.

Cartoonists had a field day with the alphabet-soup of agencies the newly elected Roosevelt spun out starting in 1933. 15 in his first year!

The 20th century chestnut blight moved south through the eastern US at a rate of 50 mi/yr. Its progression left millions of trees withered.

The 1930s Dick & Jane series remains today as the prototypical American reading program of the 20th century.