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John Sevier and the Lost State of Franklin
John Sevier, on the leading spirits in the King’s mountain affairs and commander of the transmontane militia, was a brilliant, daring, dashing character; the idol and leader of bold frontiersman, who nicknamed him “Nollichucky Jack”. The whole of Tennessee then...
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The T.V.A. Song
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has been a major factor in these mountains for eighty years. It is a federally owned company that was created by a congressional charter in 1933. The TVA provided flood control and electricity to an area that was particularly...
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The Rebel Yell
The rattle of musketry is heard in front. Skirmishers must have made contact with enemy pickets. All are alert. A signal gun is fired and the artillery joins in with accumulating fury. At last the command – “Forward!” – and an overpowering urge to make contact...
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The Hillbilly Caricatured
The popular beliefs about mountain people contain many misconceptions. According to fiction, the Hillman is a seven foot combination of malnutrition and bad breeding, asleep on his front porch with the dogs. His great bare feet, dangling off the porch, flap from time...
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Southern Folklore
Even in the written word Southern folklore and Southern folk-say succeed in catching the color, flavor, and excitement of a culture in the making and in communicating something of the same glow of discovery that the first settlers felt on going into a new country. ...
Jack and the Calf Hide (Part 2)
He walked down the road a long way in the moonlight. After a while he said, “Phew, now I’ve done it. Here I am getting’ as tired as can be with this old chest on my shoulder. I’ve a mind to throw this thing in the next well I come to – the next one I come to right...
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Jack and the Calf Hide (Part 1)
Once upon a time there was a man who had three boys, Jack, Will and Tom. Will and Tom were the two oldest sons. Jack was just a little bit of a fellow, not hardly able to take care of himself – the old father thought. So the old man just divided all of his land,...
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The Man Yoked With An Ox
Quite a number of places and people have laid claim to this story but they say it did take place here in Graham County, where a man who was out with his yoke of oxen and one of his oxen got sullen and laid down and wouldn’t pull. The man was in a rough place and the...
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The Belled Buzzard
Back of the old fiddle tune, “The Belled Buzzard”, is a tradition which had its origins in the mountains. The story concerns a settlement along a river bottom. One bank of the river was bordered for miles by high un-scalable bluffs crowned with scrub timber, the...
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One Way Passage
A revenue officer called at a mountain cabin and found no one there but a boy. The following conversation ensued: “Where’s your father?” “Pappy’s at the still.” “Where’s your mother?” “Maw’s at the still.” “Where’s your brothers and sisters?” “They’re at the still.”...
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