newspaper columnists Archives - Appalachian History

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That ghosts walk & supernatural powers rule on Halloween is the ancient superstition used to excuse the mad gayety of the modern celebration.

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

“F. A. Seagle was called to Marion today in connection with the undertaking department of Seagle Bros.” –a cross section of 1928 life

Here’s a day in the life as reported in the February 14, 1930 edition of the Clinch Valley News in Raven, VA

Bob Heafner, publisher of ‘The Mountain Laurel,’ recently reviewed the route of one his 1984 Backroads Tours, through Mortimer & Edgemont, NC.