Appalachian History

It’s tent revival season across Appalachia – the region that invented the tent revival. First camp meeting? KY’s Gasper River Church. 1800.

I played with the little Indians here. They were my only playmates for years.

An oral history from Confederate Veteran, Volume 20, Issue 1, by Confederated Southern Memorial Association

Suppose that, one of these days when I’m out hunting, I should stumble upon a moonshine still in full operation–what would happen?

It wasn’t possible to return prisoners doing work in the most distant parts of Oconee County to the county jail at Walhalla every night.

Compared to the Puritans & the Cavaliers, the Covenanters have been neglected and ignored in the history and public thought of the country.