On this day 75 years ago the pastor of a snake-handling church in Southwest Virginia, Harvey O. Kirk, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of his wife,
On this day 63 years ago a Vanderbilt University graduate student, John Bachman Hardcastle, along with two friends, Don Smith of Cleveland, Tennessee and Walter Crawford of Chattanooga, were traveling
One hundred years ago this month the largest labor uprising in American history occurred in southern West Virginia when striking coal miners gathered with weapons and headed toward the Appalachian
On Monday, August 1, 1921, Sid Hatfield and his former deputy, Ed Chambers, along with their wives, arrived at the McDowell County courthouse in Welch, West Virginia, to face trial
In 1912 a Carroll County, Virginia, man was sentenced to serve a one year sentence in the state penitentiary. The announcement of that sentence set off a gun battle that
In 1931 Knox County, Tennessee, sheriff’s deputies, along with federal Prohibition officers, found something very interesting underneath a house in Knoxville. Today we tell that story. You can subscribe to
In the early 1950s there was an outbreak of polio in the United States. One of the places most affected by the illness was Wytheville, in southwestern Virginia. In the
Sixty years ago this week Charleston, West Virginia, was going through the wettest July on record. On July 19th, around sunset, yet another storm came over the city and let
On this day eighty years ago the Reverend M. D. Garrett, of Athens, Georgia, drove to the town of Franklin, North Carolina. There he set up an amplified speaker in
On this day one hundred years ago, a riot occurred at the Western Penitentiary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Trouble began during lunch when prisoners began to throw their silverware and plates