Archive for May, 2010

Why Do Appalachians Always Return “Home”?

I was watching a documentary on Appalachia and one of the things they talked about was the fact that the people almost always return home when they move away and they did not know why.  They talked about how people used to go to bigger cities for work and then bring their families back to the [...]

black snake and the family milk cow

this story  was told to me when i was just a girl,  about black snakes that would milk the family milk cow, but any way here is how it was told to me.  There was a family of nine kids that lived up the hollow. They had a milk cow name besty, ever morning and [...]

growning up on mill creek road fort gay wv

a lot of things have  changed since i lived on mill creek road, i can remember there was a dirt road now black top, tv antanta now cable tv where thompson school used to be apartments, and well water now they are putting city water in. i rember the stores on mill creek  arbie and [...]