On this day in 1879, the Western North Carolina Railroad’s Swannanoa Tunnel officially opened, a key step in the construction of the railroad. Before its construction, Western North Carolina was
If you’ve ever admired the Linn Cove Viaduct while driving the Blue Ridge Parkway, you can thank Hugh MacRae Morton, born on this day in 1921. Morton inherited 4,000 acres
On February 4, 1924, the Middlesboro Daily News carried a remarkable tale that could have been lifted straight from the pages of a novel. It was the story of an
Earlier this summer we took our YouTube viewers to the area around Fontana Lake to show them a road that was promised but never fully built. On today’s podcast episode,
Back during the Great Depression East Tennessee was visited by a mysterious beast, a large dog with, some say, glowing red eyes. This dog, called the Witch Dog by some,
Today we tell the story of one of the most successful musicians to come from Southwest Virginia: Dr. Ralph Stanley, from Dickenson County. Please be sure to click that “Subscribe”
On this day 101 years ago the first live sports event was broadcast on the radio. Radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcast a boxing match between Johnny Ray and Johnny
The West Virginia State Penitentiary at Moundsville opened in 1876. Prior to this prisoners in the state were usually either kept in county jails or sent out of state for
Over 120 years ago one of Devil Anse Hatfield’s sons made his escape from a Williamson, West Virginia, jail. How he got in that jail, why he escaped and where