Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

In Missouri they call it a Gallywampus; in Arkansas it’s the Whistling Wampus; in Appalachia it’s just a plain old Wampus (or Wampas) cat.

You’d have that feeling then of being way far back

I did a series of photos on a Saturday afternoon in a small Tennessee town, of a medicine man. He had a little dummy, ventriloquist dummy.

The West Virginia Folklife Center presents a selection of Appalachian ghost stories Dr. Ruth Ann Musick collected through the years.

Urbin Cornett had to hide his banjo playing from his grandmother, who disapproved. Local boys tricked him into revealing his secret.

Kentucky officials did not even report influenza cases to the U.S. Public Health Service until late October. Likewise in Alabama.