Join us as we tell the tragic and lesser-known story of Willis Hatfield, the youngest son of Devil Anse Hatfield. While the Hatfield-McCoy feud had cooled down by the time
Rising tensions along the Appalachian frontier culminated with what’s called “Lord Dunmore’s War,” named after the royal governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore. That conflict came to a head with a
One hundred years ago an anthracite coal strike was in full force in the Pennsylvania coal fields, after coal operators in the state rejected UMW demands on wage rates, hours,
In the late 1880s a Bristol, Tennessee water company decided to extend its lines across the state line to what was then known as Goodson, now Bristol, Virginia. The folks
Ty Cobb was born in 1886 in Narrows, in north Georgia. He became a baseball legend, known as much for his fierce competitiveness as for his athletic ability. Today we
Disputes in Appalachia between the well-to-do were often handled with the use of firearms, with one of the most well-known people from the region, Andrew Jackson, being famous for his
On April 30, 1891 the Old West came to Appalachia, in the form of a gun fight in Roanoke, Virginia. That evening C. L. Ross and a friend, Lew Sanger,