In the years following the American Civil War, many Southern families, their sons and husbands having lost their lives or their health in defense of the confederate cause, also lost their farms and homes. For the entrenched Southern aristocracy, the conversion from a plantation economy based on slave labor to a similar system based on share cropping seemed a logical adaptation. So when a small farm family no longer had the manpower required to make the farm productive, it was usually soon lost to foreclosure and often was bought up by a former plantation owner. This is scenario precisely...
In the years following the American Civil War, many Southern families, their sons and husbands having lost their lives or their health in defense of t...
There was a general store in this mountain community for thirty years before there was a church or a school. As the only organized institution in the community, it filled many needs. It was the Mayberry Mart - the grocery store, the hardware store, the pharmacy, and the farmers' market. It also served as the social center, the news and information center, and as just about the only source of entertainment in Mayberry. The many amazing personalities that frequented that old store were the source of a lot of traditional mountain lore.
There was a general store in this mountain community for thirty years before there was a church or a school. As the only organized institution in the ...
Education in America and the direction of my own life both changed forever on October 5, 1957. The clock radio in my dormitory room came on with the broadcast of commentator Paul Harvey, awaking us to the news that the Soviet Union had just launched an artificial satellite called Sputnik into orbit around the earth "Good morning Americans," he intoned. "We awake this fine morning to learn that there is now a tin moon in space, circling the globe and invading the skies above our nation every ninety minutes. This celestial intruder was placed in orbit around the Earth, not by the United States...
Education in America and the direction of my own life both changed forever on October 5, 1957. The clock radio in my dormitory room came on with the b...
Greasy Bend is a collection of historical short stories about people and places along a segment of U.S. Highway 58 that passes through the mountains of Southwest Virginia. The highway through the section of the road near its intersection with the Blue Ridge Parkway is called Lovers Leap Mountain, and it is an especially beautiful but challenging drive. These stories surely will make the reader want to visit that part of the Blue Ridge.
Greasy Bend is a collection of historical short stories about people and places along a segment of U.S. Highway 58 that passes through the mountains o...
