On this day in 1948 country music star and co-founder of Acuff-Rose Music publishing, Roy Acuff, born in Maynardville, Tennessee, announced in Knoxville that he would be willing to accept
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
Lawyer, politician, Confederate general, land developer, promoter of coal and the founder of the town of Damascus, Virginia. All these jobs were held by one man for whom a mine
It’s been said that there is a mine somewhere in Appalachia, in which a vein of the highest quality silver can be found. And it’s located…well, that’s the problem. Nobody
The latter part of the 19th century was the golden age of the circus in America. A traveling circus with its acrobats, wild animals and the sideshow was an attraction
In 1775 Daniel Boone established Boone’s Station to the southeast of what’s now Lexington, Kentucky. Boone’s Station, owned by the Transylvania Company headed by Richard Henderson and Nathaniel Hart, was
Early in 1940 two middle-aged sisters and a teen-aged boy who did odd jobs for them were brutally murdered in their home in Oliver Springs, Tennessee. These killings were unsolved
One hundred five years ago this month opposition against the draft was coming to a boil, including in Appalachia. With the entry of the United States into World War I
James Hatcher married Octavia Smith in Pikeville, Kentucky, in 1889. The couple had a son, Jacob, who died shortly after his birth and Octavia soon spiraled into a deep depression
On November 23, 1931, 20-year-old Zachary Smith Reynolds of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was divorced from his first wife. Six days later he married his second wife, Broadway showgirl Libby Holman,