Folkways

The Legend of Tom Dula

Season 300 Episode 303 | 26m 45s  | Video has closed captioning.

A little over 130 years ago in a small rural North Carolina town in Wilkes County, a young girl of meager means left home to meet her fiancé in the woods. She had hidden her special dress under her house clothes and had packed her belongings in a trundle bag, ready for her new life. She sat in the woods and waited for her beloved, and someone met her there and who hated her enough to kill her