Appalachian History

When we got even with the Whaley house, we left the river and went up the hollow to where the Whaleys lived. We stopped a short distance from the house.

July 5, 2018 Appalachian crime / Tennessee / Vigilantes

He wanted them put out of the way & would give one hundred dollars to kill them

The White Caps of Sevier County, TN, were a vigilante group formed to rid Sevier County of individuals (mostly women) whom they deemed lewd.

July 3, 2018 Basketry / North Carolina / Wild foraging

Time to put a berry basket to good use

Before the advent of plastic containers the homemade bark berry basket was just the thing to haul your treasures out of the woods with.

allied arts building views interior and exterior

July 2, 2018 Appalachian architecture / Virginia

Open this skyscraper or I’ll jump!

The grand opening of Lynchburg, VA’s first true skyscraper had a last minute political twist changed the Oppenmeyer Tower’s fate forever.

June 29, 2018 Religious practices / West Virginia

Religious persecution, well oiled

This was the only federal conviction in the hundreds of brutal assaults on Jehovah’s Witnesses that swept America in 1941.