by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jun 18, 2020 | Appalachian, History
I love digging into random bits of history about my home state. Sometimes, when I’m traveling through on my way to or from the farm, I take side roads and just see what turns up. Like the Tyree Tavern aka Halfway House in Ansted, WV. It’s an old stagecoach...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jun 11, 2020 | Appalachian, Writing
I’m currently researching a story due to release in 2021 that’s set in and around Hawk’s Nest, WV. I found a newspaper account of a 1931 celebratory dinner held at the Lover’s Leap club house at what is now Hawk’s Nest State Park. A...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jun 4, 2020 | Appalachian, Church, Writing
Churches were still hosting revivals when I was a kid. Often held all week or maybe over a series of weekends, they were big community events meant to appeal to folks who weren’t coming to church on a regular basis. Out-of-town preachers might...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 28, 2020 | Appalachian, Family, Memories
I enjoy looking at historic homes on-line and recently realized that porch swings are much more common to the rural south–including Appalachia. It finally hit me that northern homes don’t have as many swings–or porches for that matter–because...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 25, 2020 | Appalachian, Friends, Reading
If you subscribe to my newsletter, you likely saw the recent giveaway I held for a copy of What Momma Left Behind. I did the random number thing yesterday and was delighted to reach out to Barbara Klein to let her know she’d won! I love promoting Appalachian...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 21, 2020 | Appalachian, Family, Memories
Thistle and I have been walking through a neighbor’s pasture lately. There’s a critter trail we take and I can’t walk through the waist high grasses without thinking about my father telling us to stay out of the hayfield lest we mash down the grasses...
