Appalachian History

Daring stagecoach drivers took desperate chances

A 1926 account of Grantsville, Maryland’s oldest inn: Little Crossings (still standing and now known as Penn Alps Restaurant & Craft Shop.)

When they threshed that wheat? Somebody came in with a threshing machine. He made a business of traveling around to all the farms.

Squirrel hunting was and is a passion, necessity (that may be more of a was), and a sport in the hills of Virginia and Kentucky.

On September 13, 1916 a five-ton circus elephant was executed, hung from a 100-ton Clinchfield railroad crane car, in the little town of Erwin, TN.

After my mother died, we discovered in her safe deposit box 4 irradiated dimes, 1 for each of us. Think of the damage this souvenir did.