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I thought she was going to come after me so I climbed up a rail fence 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Well, a cow had a little calf and I was going to milk them. Had her in the barn. I went to put her in with the calf to let it eat and I was going to finish milking. But when I went to put her out, the...
You really had to work to keep them molasses 26 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
“[My grandparents] had a molasses mill; they made molasses. I used to help make them, too. [They made molasses to sell.] And they made for people. They’d make molasses for six weeks or longer at a tim...
Listen Here: Appalachian History Weekly podcast posts today 25 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
We post a new episode of Appalachian History weekly podcast every Sunday. Check us out on the Stitcher network, available on mobile phones, in-car dashboards and tablets worldwide. Just click below to...
Whenever he could get a little money saved up he would buy an option on a piece of land 23 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
John C.C. Mayo (1864-1914) was born a poor mountaineer in Paintsville, KY, and by the time of his premature death at 49 of Bright’s Disease, had amassed a fortune in the neighborhood of $20,000,000, m...
Author Nadia Dean to discuss Cherokee War of 1776 tomorrow 22 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Join the Spartanburg, SC Regional History Museum tomorrow at 12:30 as researcher, journalist and author Nadia Dean shares the story of the Cherokee effort for independence. Dean’s first book, A Demand...
“Mountain Mother Goose” Open House & Book Signing Set for Aug. 25 21 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
The following item ran on Fairmont State University‘s site on August 19: Dedicated to the spirit of childhood, the new book “Mountain Mother Goose: Child Lore of West Virginia” is a collection of...
He removed his eyeglasses and lit the pipe by focusing light through the glasses 20 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
When he was only five or six years old, James Brennan delivered a pail of water to a farm worker on the grounds of what today is Tennessee’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The worker took a drink, pul...
Queen of the Meadow cures all 19 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
If butterflies are about this week, you can be sure you will find them on the heads of sweet Joe-Pye-weed (Eupatorium purpureum). This perennial herb, found in moist woods and fields throughout Appala...
Listen Here: Appalachian History Weekly podcast posts today 18 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
We post a new episode of Appalachian History weekly podcast every Sunday. Check us out on the Stitcher network, available on mobile phones, in-car dashboards and tablets worldwide. Just click below to...
‘My name is Mike Fink!’ was the curt reply 16 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
He was the most famous of the keelboatmen, who plied the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers for two decades until they and their watercraft were displaced by steamboats. Mike Fink, by William Gropper (1897-...
