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The Amazing Life of One-Armed Jimmy

Stories of Appalachia
Stories of Appalachia
Episode • Apr 29, 2023 • 12m
Today we tell the story of a man who refused to let a "disability" keep him down.

Linguist, athlete, amateur astronomer, adventurer and genealogist James Brownlow Lawson from Sevier County, Tennessee, lived the life he wanted, despite the loss of his arm as a young man.

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