appalachian literature Archives - Page 8 of 13

From 1959-1970, Betty Hornbeck wrote a weekly column for the Republican-Delta Newspaper in Buckhannon, WV entitled “West Virginia Whirligig”.

The Cleudis Robbins Memorial Storytelling Contest 2013: A Good Story Takes Some Telling

The 1st Cleudis Robbins Memorial Storytelling Contest, in Bell County, KY, drew 100 schoolchildren, who told ghost stories & adventure tales.

Author Eva Nell Mull Wike explains how she came to write ‘Fiddler of the Mountains,’ about her talented uncle, Johnny Mull.

Playwright Lisa Soland discusses the Walker Sisters, last inhabitants of what was to become the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

“Maizee Hurd was an easy target for hard times,” says Burdy Luttrell, the town healer. Burdy is a Melungeon woman with mysterious ways.