Carter Family Archives - Appalachian History

A dreadful cyclone that came this way

On May 2, 1929, the unusually violent storm slammed into the little community of Rye Cove, VA in the mountains of Scott County.

It wasn’t too long until the mill had been built, and the first of Carter’s mills on Stony Creek was in business.

It was while trout fishing in the spring of 1938, in Big Stony Creek, that I first saw the old Carter Mill.

It took Beth Harrington 12 years to create ‘The Winding Stream’. She shares favorite behind the scenes moments in making this documentary.

Despite dying in relative obscurity, A. P. Carter was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.