Appalachian History

The unsolved murder of Mamie Thurman

On June 22, 1932, she was found where she’d been dumped on 22 Mountain, then called Trace Mountain. Mamie Thurman had been savagely murdered.

This letter captures perfectly the gold fever that swept the region shortly after the yellow nuggets were discovered in Alaska’s Yukon.

Are your premises safe against haints, furies & other such ornery spirits? Seen a sudden upsurge of bottles dangling upside down in trees?

In the hills of eastern Kentucky, there was a clan of folk who seem to have shared a genetic anomaly that, in effect, rendered them blue.

In June 1929, First Lady Louann Hoover refused to invite black Congressman Oscar De Priest’s wife to the White House for tea with others.

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