Liz Warren | Storyteller

The Appalachian Mountains run from the state of Maine down south to Alabama, although the tales and folklore which have become very popular and are attributed to Appalachian culture come mostly from the southern parts of the mountain region. It is the southern region that has kept its older ways, more so than in the north, in a large part because it is less accessible, and there has been less change.  The area was first settled about 100 years after the Revolutionary War when people started looking for fresh farming land. Mountains are not good farming land, and  folks kept on moving west. But there were a good number who didn’t keep moving west and stayed on making a life for themselves hunting and doing what mountain people do. Many of these emigrants were of German,  Irish, and Welsh stock.