There’s something different about football in Appalachia. Maybe it’s the mountains. Maybe it’s the coal mines, steel mills and hard-working communities where people learned long ago that nothing worth having
This week we tell the story of the Wright-Reynolds feud and the legendary figure at its center: a man folks often called “Devil”: John Wesley Wright. Riding through the rugged
Before Robert Fulton, there was James Rumsey, an inventor who defied his skeptics and the power of the Potomac River at Shepardstown, in what’s now West Virginia. Today we tell
Before Elkmont became a tourist destination and eventually a ghost town, it was home to Levi Trentham, a mountain landowner, businessman, hunter, guide, and unofficial mayor. As railroads, lumber companies,
Dillion “Old Dill” Asher was one of the early pioneers of southeastern Kentucky, a frontier soldier and farmer who became the toll keeper at the Cumberland River ford at what’s