Stories-A History of Appalachia, One Story at a Ti

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Stories-A History of Appalachia, One Story at a Ti

The French Settlement

During the French Revolution a French baron attempted to establish a colony of Frenchmen in...

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Joseph Martin

Explorer, surveyor, soldier and Indian agent are all jobs held by Joseph Martin. He also built a...

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The Draft Dodger

During World War I a wealthy playboy from Philadelphia refused induction into the U. S. Army...

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Who Am I ?

Today we tell the story of an East Tennessee man who realized after 20 years of marriage that he...

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Earl

On April 11, 1946, Earl McFarland was captured by the FBI at the corner of Gay Street and...

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The Scopes Monkey Trial, Part Two

In 1925 the state of Tennessee passed the Butler Act, which made it illegal to teach the theory...

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The Scopes Monkey Trial, Part One

In 1925 the state of Tennessee passed the Butler Act, which made it illegal to teach the theory...

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The Kentucky Meat Shower 2021

Today we go back and retell one of our favorite stories, about a very odd occurrence at a farm in...

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Cassius Marcellus Clay

Prior to the Civil War the Clay family of Kentucky was one of the nation’s most prominent...

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George Washington’s Lost Colony

After the French and Indian War the governor of Virginia awarded veterans land in the western...

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Bouncing Bertha’s Ghost

In 1938 a family had an encounter with an Appalachian ghost when young Bertha Sybert’s bed began...

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Kidnapped!

In 1949 a gang robbed the Bank of Follansbee, near Weirton, West Virginia, of $5,400.00 and made...

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The Marshall University Plane Crash

The Memorial Fountain to the plane crash. By Wv funnyman – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,...

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Fire In The Hole!

New Straitsville, Ohio, was founded as a coal town in the Hocking Valley after the Civil War....

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The Greeneville Cholera Epidemic of 1873

In the 1870s cholera swept throughout the south, eventually reaching the home of a former...

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The Shelton Laurel Massacre

Loyalties were divided in Appalachia, from Kentucky to Tennessee to North Carolina. And it was in...

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Appalachia And The First Anti-Lynching Law

Wise County, Virginia, saw very little racial violence after the Civil War. In fact, up until...

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The Lady Chained To The Wall

Firefighters responding to a house fire in Canton, Pennsylvania, in 1896 were stunned by what...

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The Wild Man Of The Smokies

Mason Evans was a schoolteacher and principal in McMinn County, in southeast Tennessee. After his...

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The Wright-Templeton Gang

The bloody legacy of the Civil War lived on in Appalachia up until the beginning of the 20th...

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