Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

You only got one pair of shoes a year

She went to town, bought me a pair of shoes for two dollars and nineteen cents, and that was . . . you know, you only got one pair a year.

The Dingle was wilderness when Nemacolin, a Delaware chief, & Thomas Cresap, a MD frontiersman, first blazed a trail through here.

The court papers disbarring Thomas Hicks made no mention of the black-market babies. The abortion charges against him were dropped.

The game of morra may appear to be a convoluted, grownup version of rock, paper, scissor that we’ve all seen kids play.

A drunken man goes on a wild shoot ’em up in Norton. Deputy policeman comes after him. Twice. Sadly, drunken man has friends in high places.