Appalachian History

A Wheeling bellhop rises to hotel greatness

Ellsworth Milton Statler, virtually without benefit of formal education, climbed to the pinnacle of the hotel business.

From April – June 1914 Emma Bell Miles wrote “Fountain Square Conversations” weekly for The Chattanooga News.

If you’re a lover of classical chamber music living in Asheville, you can thank the efforts of Jeanette & Joe Vanderwart for making it happen.

“La Vue Premiere,” by William P. Hopen, depicts the arrival of the first French immigrants who settled in this region in the early 18th century.

Blaine Shepherd, a youth of the Crumpler-Grassy Creek section of the county, was shot and accidentally killed by his father.