On April 27, 1865, the side-wheel steamboat Sultana exploded and sank while moving from New Orleans up the Mississippi River toward Cairo, Illinois. The ship had stopped at Vicksburg where
In 1870 the first official West Virginia state capitol building was built, a very ornate Italianate structure in Charleston. That building was added onto in 1887 with an addition. This
In the late 1700s two cousins, Micajah Harpe and Wiley Harpe, terrorized the Appalachian frontier, stealing, fighting, raping and killing pioneers as they crossed Appalachia looking for a new home.
On this day in 1948 the National Association for Stock Car Racing was incorporated. NASCAR went on to become one of America’s favorite sports. The idea for an association came
In the summer of 1996 a bomb exploded at the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. An investigation eventually led to a man who was suspected in bombings of abortion
On this day 99 years ago Charles Elwood Yeager was born in Myra, West Virginia. Chuck Yeager went on to become a Brigadier General in the U.S. Air Force, a
In the summer of 1946 a training mission for a B-29 Superfortress ended in tragedy. Today we tell the story of that B-29, which crashed into the third-highest mountaintop in
Moonshining has been a part of Appalachian tradition since the first settlers moved into these mountains two hundred fifty years ago, bringing the knowledge of distilling alcoholic spirits from the
Who were the men who moved into what’s now East Tennessee, establishing the first local governments there, such as the Watauga Association in 1772 and the State of Franklin in
In 1950 a man shot and killed his sister-in-law and niece in a country store in northeast Tennessee. Why he did that is our story today. Don’t forget to subscribe