Appalachian Folklore & Myths On clear evenings along the high ridges of western North Carolina, it is easy to see why people imagine something watching from the spruce and fir. The Great Balsam Mountains sit between the tourist glow of Asheville and the deep hollers that run toward Cherokee and Sylva, a high, folded country of fog, rhododendron thickets, and black bear sign.

Appalachian Folklore & Myths On a September evening in 1952, a handful of boys on a schoolyard in central West Virginia watched a bright object streak across the sky and vanish behind a hill on a neighbor’s farm.

Appalachian Folklore & Myths On a cold mountain night it does not take much to start a story. A house cat yowls in the yard. Something screams once down in the hollow. A bucket tips over on the porch. Before long somebody shakes their head and says that the wampus cat is out again. Across Appalachia that name covers a whole menagerie of fears.

Appalachian Folklore & Myths Late on a June night in 1964, a young newspaper reporter steered his car along Riverside Drive beside the Tygart Valley River at Grafton, West Virginia. On the river side of the road he saw what he later called a “huge white obstruction” that seemed alive, seven to nine feet tall, roughly four feet wide, with slick, seal like skin and no visible head.

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Appalachian Figures In the summer of 1930, Memphis fans crowded into Lewis Park to watch their Red Sox face the best Black ballclubs in the country. Somewhere on the infield dirt of that segregated ballpark stood a third baseman whose story began in the hills of eastern Kentucky.

Appalachian Figures If you stand on the hill at Williamsburg and look toward the campus of the University of the Cumberlands, it can be hard to imagine that one of the U.S. Navy’s early carrier admirals began his life here.

Appalachian Figures On an April morning in 2011, the cafeteria at Whitley County High School felt like any other school day in the mountains. Students clustered at tables, the smell of biscuits and gravy hung in the air, and teachers moved through the noise in that half vigilant, half routine way that comes with long years in a classroom.

Appalachian Figures A country doctor on the Tennessee border If you drive Kentucky Route 92 east out of Williamsburg today, the road winds past timbered ridges and small clearings before a sign quietly announces Carpenter. There is no incorporated town government here, only houses along the highway, a church and cemetery, side hollows like Poplar Creek, and the echo of a name that belonged first to a nineteenth century doctor.

Appalachian Figures In the fall of 1864 a Kentucky born farmer’s son found himself riding through brushy Missouri pastureland, hunting one of the most feared guerrillas on the border. Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Porter Cox, commanding a mixed detachment of Enrolled Missouri Militia, had spent weeks tracking William “Bloody Bill” Anderson, whose men had already left a trail of burned farms and massacred prisoners across central Missouri.