The Bridge To VulcanThe Bridge To Vulcan
In 1977 a small town along the Tug River in West Virginia needed a bridge. They got that bridge, and became world-famous in the process. That’s our story this week.
Category: Cold War
The Bridge To Vulcan – Thanks, Tovarishch!The Bridge To Vulcan – Thanks, Tovarishch!
The small town of Vulcan, West Virginia, located between mountains and the Kentucky border along the Tug River, was like many small Appalachian towns in that it was dependent on
A Trip To The Iron Curtain – August 11, 1958A Trip To The Iron Curtain – August 11, 1958
On this day 63 years ago a Vanderbilt University graduate student, John Bachman Hardcastle, along with two friends, Don Smith of Cleveland, Tennessee and Walter Crawford of Chattanooga, were traveling
Faster Than A Speeding BulletFaster Than A Speeding Bullet
Today we tell the story of the man from West Virginia who became a brigadier general in the U. S. Air Force, helped train the first American astronauts and became
The Nerve Gas TrainThe Nerve Gas Train
In August, 1970, two trains loaded with deadly Sarin gas made a journey through Appalachia to the ocean at Wilmington, North Carolina, for disposal at sea. Today we tell that
Alfred Dean Slack, Kingsport SpyAlfred Dean Slack, Kingsport Spy
Welcome to our new podcast, Stories, A History of East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. Each week we’ll take a look at the history of the area, one story at a