AppalachianFolkA Collection of Appalachian Stories

Brings back memories
http://susie1114.com/LittleBrownShack.html

Christmas is a wonderful thing.  You have Christmas plays, Christmas lights, Christmas trees and all manner of decoration.  Christmas has always been a big to-do in the Howell household.  My mom can be very focused and competitive, especially when there is a certain new and great toy that her child wants. 
I remember sitting in the [...]

Men in Appalachia take Deer Hunting Season very seriously.  From the time they are small boys, they are groomed into being hunters.  There is no prouder moment in a mountaineers life than his first Buck, mounted on the wall with his name and the date engraved below it.  They are heirlooms that are passed down from [...]

On September 23rd, 2001 only 12 days after the 9-11 attacks on our nation.  Sunday evening several miners were doing idle day work at JWR Mine #5 in Brookwood Alabama,  the roof fell in on the battery charging station on a working section of the mine.  When the roof fell in on the spare battery [...]

As  I was growing up most all of my family were Church Folks,  both of my Papaw’s  were preachers,  my   Mamaw’s were really good Godly women,  if they told you something you had better believe it.   When  I was very young a Preacher came to visit our little Church on the Hill,  (it was called this [...]

Memorial for:
Garland Howell, Tomahawk, Martin County, Kentucky
George Moore, Wolf Creek, Martin County, Kentucky
Both of my grandfathers worked in the mine for years.  Neither passed away as a result of a mining accident.  My Papaw Howell fell ill to lung cancer when I was young.  He was still working in the mine when he got sick [...]

While I was working at  Benham Coal Inc,  @ Benham Kentucky ,  as my cousin and me were arriving at work one Tuesday in March,  we saw the mine rescue team loading their equipment on the bus they used for traveling.   We walked in to the bath house and I saw one of my uncle’s taking  [...]

BamaCat has given us a link to a great site.  I love hearing about him growing up in the coal camps.  Please check out this link below for the museum that used to be the company store where BamaCat and his family shopped.
http://www.benhamky.org/Museum/ this is a Coal Mine Museum, as I was growing up it was [...]

Please check out this wonderful site and BamaCat’s story below.  I have copied and pasted it.  It is very interesting! 
http://www.kingdomcome.org/inn/index.html
Today as you can see this is called the School House Inn. This is the school that International Harverster built for the education of their employees children.
I went to that school from the first grade thru [...]

I was very small when both of my parent’s joined church.  I’m going to say I was 3 or 4.  At any rate, the church going was fine, but the baptism part was more than I could take. 
I had never seen a baptism before, or not at least that I could remember.  I remember going [...]