Famous People from Appalachia

[Joe Baker]

Thought this might be an interesting thread.
Here is a short list of people from my home area (Wise County, VA)

George C. Scott actor

Francis Gary Powers U-2 pilot shot down over Russia early 60's

Napolean Hill author of THINK & GROW RICH

Thought of more last night, but can't seem to remember them today. How
about posting some names you might know, let's see what Appalachia has
contributed in terms of impact on the US and world.

Joe Baker
ba...@tricon.net

[Phillip Toth]

Joe Baker <ba...@tricon.net> wrote:

>Joe Baker
>ba...@tricon.net

Charles "Chuck" Yeager First human to break the sound barrier.
From (the vicinity of) Hamlin, West Virginia.

Cyrus Vance Former Secretary of State
From Harrison County, West Virginia

Jerry West Basketball Hall of Fame, General Manager LA Lakers
Cabin Creek, West Virginia

General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson Civil War Hero
Jackson's Mill, (Virginia) West Virginia

[Prcuddy]

Well, how about Andrew Jackson, Davey Crockett, Daniel Boone?

[jma...@naxs.com]

One more for your list-- Tennessee Ernie Ford
Bristol,Tn.

[Tim Henderson]

In article <3135C5...@tricon.net>, ba...@tricon.net says...

>
>Thought this might be an interesting thread.
>Here is a short list of people from my home area (Wise County, VA)
>
>
>George C. Scott actor
>
>Francis Gary Powers U-2 pilot shot down over Russia early 60's
>
>Napolean Hill author of THINK & GROW RICH
>
>
>Thought of more last night, but can't seem to remember them today. How
>about posting some names you might know, let's see what Appalachia has
>contributed in terms of impact on the US and world.
>
>Joe Baker
>ba...@tricon.net

Don Knotts, Strother Martin, Patricia Neal...all West Virginians

[Wachu]

Then of course there is:
Ret. Brig. Gen. Charles "Chuck" Yeager...Test Pilot/ Bell X-1
Gary West....basketball player

[John Johnson]

Joe Baker (ba...@tricon.net) wrote:
: Thought this might be an interesting thread.

: Here is a short list of people from my home area (Wise County, VA)

: George C. Scott actor
:
: Francis Gary Powers U-2 pilot shot down over Russia early 60's

: Napolean Hill author of THINK & GROW RICH

: Thought of more last night, but can't seem to remember them today. How
: about posting some names you might know, let's see what Appalachia has
: contributed in terms of impact on the US and world.

: Joe Baker
: ba...@tricon.net

How about Carrol Dale, who played for the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl
1 and 2? He went to J.J. Kelly High School in Wise, Va.

______________________________________________________________________________

John S. Johnson | Fate will go far out of it's way and inconvenience
sha...@ais.net | millions to piss ME off! --DPG
83 Yamaha XV750K |
92 Geo Storm | Never let morals get in the way of a good idea.
Oakland Raiders | --Me
______________________________________________________________________________

[Rachael Trout]

In article <313901d...@NNTP.IX.NETCOM.COM>, MIKE...@ix.netcom.com
says...

>
>On 2 Mar 1996 04:47:13 GMT, papa...@bga.com (Tim Henderson) wrote:
>
>>In article <3135C5...@tricon.net>, ba...@tricon.net says...

>>>George C. Scott actor

>>>Francis Gary Powers U-2 pilot shot down over Russia early 60's
>>>
>>>Napolean Hill author of THINK & GROW RICH
>>>
>>>

Don Knotts, Strother Martin, Patricia Neal...all West Virginians
>>
>>
>>

>Chuck Yeager (test pilot), Bill Wiethers (singer), Susan & Chris
>Surranden (Went to Woodrow Wilson High School in Beckley)(actors)
>
Charles Manson (briefly attended Stonewall Jackson High in Charleston)
Jerry West (Basketball)

[Mike]

On 2 Mar 1996 04:47:13 GMT, papa...@bga.com (Tim Henderson) wrote:

>In article <3135C5...@tricon.net>, ba...@tricon.net says...
>>

>>Thought this might be an interesting thread.
>>Here is a short list of people from my home area (Wise County, VA)
>>
>>

>>George C. Scott actor
>>
>>Francis Gary Powers U-2 pilot shot down over Russia early 60's
>>
>>Napolean Hill author of THINK & GROW RICH
>>
>>

>>Thought of more last night, but can't seem to remember them today. How
>>about posting some names you might know, let's see what Appalachia has
>>contributed in terms of impact on the US and world.
>>
>>Joe Baker
>>ba...@tricon.net
>

>Don Knotts, Strother Martin, Patricia Neal...all West Virginians
>
>
>
Chuck Yeager (test pilot), Bill Wiethers (singer), Susan & Chris
Surranden (Went to Woodrow Wilson High School in Beckley)(actors)

Mike
mike...@ix.netcom.com

[Donna Thompson]

Soupy Sales comdiean huntington, WV
Pearl S Buck author

[wma...@marshall.edu]

In article <wsa00031-010...@129.71.43.53>, wsa0...@mail.wvnet.edu writes:
> Carter G. Woodson, the father of black history and a famous educator, was
> from West Virginia. Robert Frasure, the diplomat killed in Bosnia last
> year, was a West Virginian. Henry Louis Gates, one of the leading
> literary scholars in the country, is a West Virginian. Mary Lou Retton
> the Olympic gold medalist, and Jerry West, the basketball player also.

In addition to that we have Soupy Sales and Dagmar (early tv panelist), from
Huntington, WV
Also George Reeve (tv's first Superman) was from Ashland, KY as is Chuck
Wooley, erstzwhile game show host.
Joe

[Olen Kline]

Billy Ed Wheeler
Charlie McCoy
'Little' Jimmy Dickens

All members of the Grand Old Opera and from WV

[Karr]

Joe Baker <ba...@tricon.net> wrote:

>Thought this might be an interesting thread.
>Here is a short list of people from my home area (Wise County, VA)

>George C. Scott actor
>
>Francis Gary Powers U-2 pilot shot down over Russia early 60's

>Napolean Hill author of THINK & GROW RICH

Wasn't Jerry West from W.Va.? And my uncle Buzz Nutter was raised in
W.Va. He was a center for the Baltimore Colts back when they won the
Super Bowl with Johnny Unitas.He's not famous, but quite an
accomplishment from someone who attended Vinson High School.
Professional football sure was a lot different back then,too! What
other sports figures have come from Appalachian area?

[wsa0...@mail.wvnet.edu]

> Professional football sure was a lot different back then,too] What

> other sports figures have come from Appalachian area?

Another famous basketball player from West Virginia -- Hal Greer from
Huntington. At one time he and Jerry West were both in the top five of
all time NBA scorers.
Also didn't Marshall coach Cam Henderson invent the fast break?

[Richard Faulkner]

Brad Daughtery was from Black Mountain, NC, which is in the heart of the
Appalachian/Blue Ridge Mtns.

Also of historical interest. Exxum Clement was the first woman elected in
the state of North Carolina to serve as a member of the NC Legislature
before the vote was accorded to women.

Also Zebulon Vance, Civil War Governor of NC was from Appalachia as well.

[jqbu...@gmail.com]

Peggy Castle, Actress( Real name was Peggy Blair)

[Larry is uh Dope]

Homer Hickam, Coalwood WV
Rocket scientist. Author of Rocket Boys, basis for film Octiber Sky

Sid Hatfield, Matewan Police Chief
Supported UNW in Matewan mine wars.

Larry "Buttwhistle" Smith

[Larrys Outhouse BnB]

Dud eny bidy mention Larry "Buttwhistle" Smith ?

[NC Judge SAM J Ervin iv REEKING SEWER OF DEPRAVITY]

You must be a little dim.

You're thinking of Brad Daugherty, the great UNCCH basketball star from Black Mountain.

Ironically, Brad is black and Zeb Vance who was born just a few miles from Asheville was a slave-owner and slave trader who supported the Confederacy during the Civil War. Famous?

I would call that sonofabitch infamous, like the pinhead with Charge Syndrome and moron IQ, Idjit BoB Wilston from McDowell County who is an obsessed psycho, trolls here in alt.appalachian every day by constantly shoveling shit, wallows in squalid Huntington Beach slums, and is too cowardly to troll under his real name because he is a convicted child molester who buggers little boys. He ought to be taken out and shot and his degenerate carcass dumped in a public sewer.

[Idjit BoB]

Now if'n that ain't a troll... anyways ironically Larribald is a lil' dim and obviously trolls black basketball players.

Don'cha mean Jerry West is a basketball player and this Idjit BoB Wilston yew refer to might jest be a psycho but at least he ain't bald! Less git our priorities strait there Larribaldo.