Berea KY Archives - Appalachian History

A racy book, full of the thrill of mountain adventure

Author James Watt Raine provides eyewitness accounts of mountain speech and folksinging, education, religion, community, politics, & farming.

My proclivity toward spelling prowess reached fulfillment with one of my teachers. She had weekly spelling bees, and I quickly climbed.

It is not money that is the root of all evil. It is idleness. Idleness leads to poverty, Idleness invites disease. Idleness breeds crime.

The human-like tracks were found in a sandstone formation known to belong to the Coal Age, about 12 miles southeast of Berea, KY.

Thanks to the Appalachian Craft Revival, a Berea, KY firm rose up to become one of the nation’s foremost companies specialized in handweaving.

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