In 1912 a young man’s life was transformed by his witnessing a historic tragedy: the infamous Carroll County courthouse shootout, which left several prominent lawyers, police officers and a judge
230 years ago a man was born in the Long Hollow section of Scott County, Virginia. This man grew up to become a Shaker, then a spiritualist and lay preacher,
Granny women were the healers and caretakers of folks in Appalachia, dispensing folk remedies, serving as midwives, and even dousing for water. These women were essential in rural Appalachia, where
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On this day in 1952 James P. Longworth of Middlesboro, Kentucky, was awaiting his death the next day. The 69-year-old man told reporters that his death had been revealed to
In 1912 a Presbyterian pastor in Greeneville, Tennessee, decided to help his former secretary back at the school he headed in Pittsburgh. That decision cost the woman her life and
On this day in 1912 the Reverend W. D. McFarland, pastor of the United Presbyterian Church Missionary in Greene County, Tennessee, was arrested and placed in the Greene County jail
On January 6, 1921 Anderson Hatfield, better known as Devil Anse, died at his home on Island Creek in Logan County, West Virginia, of pneumonia. He was the head of
One of the first preachers to take up snake handling as part of his ministry was born in Southwest Virginia, in Scott County, on May 2, 1881. Today we tell