It’s Halloween so Rod and Steve each have a bit of Appalachian folklore for you, in the form of two ghost stories. Stick around after the stories, though, because Halloween
In 1906 a North Carolina prison escapee comes to Asheville. There he gets into a drunken shootout with police and an escape littered with his murdered victims. Today we tell
In 1784 a child was born on the Appalachian frontier, along the Holston River, in what was then the state of Franklin. This child would grow up to become a
Today we have another collection of what we call “short stories,” bits of Appalachian history that are interesting but which by themselves won’t make for a full podcast episode. On
Can you believe this month makes five years since the Stories podcast made its debut? It was on Halloween, 2015, that the very first episode of Stories was released. Since
Many world renowned athletes have come from Appalachia, from NFL players Thomas and Julius Jones to gymnast Mary Lou Retton, just to name a few. Today we tell the story