Around 1978, Museum founder John Rice Irwin purchased this pie safe from Ethel Freytag. Ethel was a historian and retired school teacher who lived on [...]

Most of the early ballot boxes in Southern Appalachia were created out of make-shift wood or cardboard, so we were most surprised to discover this heavily fortified [...]

Nancy Rose, a talented “old-time” basket-maker, made several of these peculiar, unusually-shallow baskets. However, she came up with the design for the original “stomped-on” basket by accident. [...]

This unfinished stone carving was created by George Price, a resident of White County, Tennessee. It is our understanding that George had no training as [...]