AppalachianFolkA Collection of Appalachian Stories

I just finished watching the movie Coal Miner’s Daughter.  Its a movie that I have watched many times over.  I guess you could say that I’m a little obsessed with Mrs. Lynn.  She grew up about 40 minutes away from where I did in Johnson County, Kentucky outside of Van Lear in Butcher Hollow.  That in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Contact:  Christy H. Sweeney                                              FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Phone: 859.494.2540
Email: chsweeney@centralkylaw.com
Website: www.appalachianfolk.com
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APPALACHIAN FOLK FOUNDER FINDS HER ROOTS AT THE MUSEUM OF APPALACHIA
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LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY (APRIL 2010) – Preservation of Appalachian culture has always been a passion for Christy Howell Sweeney, Esq., founder of Appalachianfolk.com.  In a pursuit to discover even more about her heritage, she recently [...]