Appalachian History

For all the jokes about KFC’s Colonel Harlan Sanders or the ABA’s “Kentucky Colonels,” the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels is for real.

Sody Sallyratus

One day an old woman wanted to bake some biscuits but she needed some sody. She sent the little boy to the store to buy some sody sallyraytus.

The Spring House was a common site at many farms in the past. It was a pre-electricity version of a refrigerator.

Eleanor Steber commissioned & brought to life a 16-minute song that luxuriates in the calm of an earlier, contented, rocking-chair America.

Concern about louse-borne disease was such that after the 1918 armistice, returning troops were deloused at port & quarantined for 2 weeks.