A-Nya ’23 Even though A-Nya ’23 grew up in Dunbar, W. Va., for most of her life she didn’t really see herself as Appalachian. “I felt dissociated from…
In 1870, Henry was born into a humble and hardworking family in Madison County, Ky. He came to Berea College in 1889 and after nearly 10 years he…
When the late Alex Haley, author of “Roots,” took William Turner to the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tenn., a short distance from the Haley estate, both men…