Appalachian History

Poor men are buying butterine at rich men’s butter prices

All over the country poor men are buying that oleomargarine and they are buying it largely at the rich man’s butter prices.

In May of 1926, President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill authorizing the establishment of a 521,000-acre Shenandoah National Park.

Back in nineteen and thirteen me and my brother coon hunted lots [in the] Smokies. We had a dog named Track. He was a good one.

There is a town in Maryland’s westernmost county of Garrett that got its name from a happy accident.

On April 29, 1904, the Court of Appeals ruled that the new county failed to meet constitutional standards of size and population.