Pocahontas Hale - a podcast by Steve Gilly, Rod Mullins

In the 1860s a Cherokee witch doctor arrived in Bristol, Virginia, to assist in the local Confederate hospital with her salves and potions.  After the war she invested her meager savings into a building on State Street, from which she operated what became Bristol's largest brothel, the Black Shawl.  

Today we tell her story, and more.

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