The Marrying Parson: The Preacher at the Train Station
For decades a preacher would come to the Bristol, Virginia, train station to meet the incoming trains, looking for couples who’d come to the city to elope. He claimed to have married 5,142 couples, o...
29 Aug 22min
The Whiskey Rebellion
In 1794, thousands of federalized militia marched into western Pennsylvania to put down an uprising by American farmers. Their crime? Making whiskey and refusing to pay a federal tax on it.The Whiskey...
22 Aug 29min
Old Dill Asher: The Kentucky Pioneer Who Became a Legend
Dillion “Old Dill” Asher was one of the early pioneers of southeastern Kentucky, a frontier soldier and farmer who became the toll keeper at the Cumberland River ford at what’s now Pineville, giving h...
15 Aug 14min
The Frontier's Most Dangerous Woman: The Story of Nancy Hart
In 1779, on the Georgia frontier, a group of armed Loyalist soldiers forced their way into Nancy Hart's cabin, demanding a hot meal from a helpless woman and her daughter.Instead, they found themselve...
8 Aug 15min
The Taylor-Mullins Feud: The Road to the Killing Rock
The infamous Killing Rock massacre ended with the deaths of a moonshiner and his wife and several of their friends on a mountain along the Virginia-Kentucky border. It began years earlier with a lawsu...
1 Aug 22min
Franklin's Last Battle: Sevier's Attack at Flint Creek
In the winter of 1789, Cherokee war leader John Watts made a daring decision. Instead of returning to the Chickamauga towns as he usually did for the winter, he established a hidden winter camp deep i...
25 Jul 21min
47 Years a Hermit: The Strange Afterlife of William Hewitt
In the late 1780s a man from Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, William Hewitt, crossed the Ohio River seeking to find solitude in the Appalachian wilderness after heartbreak changed his life forever. Livi...
18 Jul 15min
The Untamable Monster Well of 1894: Big Moses
In September 1894, a routine drilling operation on a Tyler County, West Virginia, farm broke into a massive natural gas pocket, unleashing one of the most powerful and uncontrollable wells the world h...
11 Jul 14min
