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Author: Dave Tabler

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September 15, 2017 Wild foraging

Ginseng, the curious rootstock

The U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service mandates that states allowing wild ginseng’s export have protective regulations in place.

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September 14, 2017 Appalachian crime / Virginia

They slapped handcuffs on his wrists. “I guess you’ve got me”

Sidna Allen & Wesley Edwards, members of the outlaw gang who murdered Judge Massie and others at Hillsville Court House were arrested today.

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September 13, 2017 Cattle ranchers/ranching / West Virginia / Writers

His great grandfather crossed into these hills from an Eastern State that did not please him

Melville Davisson Post’s third book ‘Dwellers in the Hills’ (1901) is a romance of the old WV cattle country in which his youth was passed.

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Nannie Kelly Wright and her driver, Alec Tolliver, standing in front of Center Furnace in what would later be renamed Superior, OH
September 12, 2017 Iron foundries / Ohio

America’s only woman ironmaster

Nannie Kelly Wright was probably the only woman ironmaster in US history. Her father helped form Cincinnati’s White Collar packet line.

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September 11, 2017 Feuds / Kentucky

He answered the call, not by a natural death

I never think of Shea’s Fork without my mind reverting back to that dismal, heartless day in the long ago.

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    May 19, 2017
  • The Prophet Ezekiel; art ca. 1900 The Blood Verse
    March 7, 2008
  • John Shell in hat, with a cane World’s oldest man — Kentuckian John Shell
    July 5, 2019
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    May 31, 2016
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    November 3, 2011
  • Source: Unsplash Appalachian Innovators: Untold Stories of Invention and Ingenuity
    July 16, 2024
  • The Southeast Floods of 1916 in North Carolina; Public domain image provided by NOAA Heavy Rainfall Events and Their Impacts in Appalachian History
    February 27, 2024
  • canning and pickling jars still life From Root Cellars to Larders to Modern Pantries: The Evolution of Food Storage in Appalachian Homesteads
    January 12, 2024
  • chef holds cluster of grapes to camera A Journey Through Appalachian Winemaking History
    November 9, 2023
  • 1930s Ford truck untended in a garage / Library of Congress The Historic Role and Contemporary Allure of Vintage Appalachian Farm Trucks
    September 7, 2023
  • Tami on The Guineas of West Virginia
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  • Kat on “Everyday” Appalachian Superstitions
  • Douglas Allen Gray on Is the Kentucky long rifle misnamed?

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