Appalachian History

Drop by and say hello to the folks in: Sweet Lips, TN. Toast, NC. Typo, KY. There’s a world of oddly named places in Appalachia.

Ho Ho Ho!

During the Great Depression the Coca Cola Company solidified the image of Santa Claus that persists to today.

I often sat in the kitchen & watched my father fix oysters, dipping them in egg mix, then coating them with cracker meal.

John Jacob Niles released this song on ‘Early American Carols and Folksongs,’ an album of four 78 rpm discs in fall 1940.

Plott Coon Hounds are the only breed of the original 6 breeds of coon hounds without British influence in their ancestry.