Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

We have canned 113 cans of corn and several beans

The mill here is running good. Still it’s hard to get a job as so many are still out of work. I will close by promising to write more often.

Ku Klux Klan pitch letter sent to Edgar M. Lyda, Chairman of the Buncombe County Commissioners and Finance at the time he received it.

Reminiscences of the Cloverdale, GA community by Brody Hawkins, who was born there in 1927 (d. 1998) and lived there all his life.

Leo J. Beachy is thought to have taken 10,000 photographs a year on 5×7 inch glass plates of his beloved Garrett County, MD.

By 1878, about 50 sq. mi. had been stripped of vegetation. Without trees and undergrowth, the top soil began to erode and huge gullies formed.

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