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Author: Dave Tabler

mull grocery in brevard, nc
August 7, 2017 Grocery industry / North Carolina / Oral histories

I don’t ever seem to be able to get away from groceries

I know the grocery business and I know the meat business from top to bottom. I do all the buying for the meat counter and cut it and weigh it.

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Breaks Interstate Park (VA side)
August 4, 2017 Kentucky / Parks / Virginia

The Grand Canyon of the South

Breaks Interstate Park, astride the VA/KY border along the Russell Fork of the Big Sandy River, is one of only 2 interstate parks nationwide.

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Dalton looking towards Cohutta, 15 Oct 1864, by Alfred Waud
August 3, 2017 Georgia / Writers

The full force of an ardent Southern temperament

“I don’t know anything else. You see, I was born in North Georgia, in Dalton, the town that has figured in my books as ‘Darley’.”

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spinning a yarn
August 2, 2017 Humor / West Virginia

If you would quit telling yarns for three months

“Now you remember our bargain,” said the doctor. “I was to shave off my mustache if you would quit telling yarns for three months.”

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Chained rock at pine mountain state park
August 1, 2017 Kentucky / Parks / Tourism

The chain that holds back a mountain

Visitors love Chained Rock at Pine Mountain, Kentucky’s first state park, established in 1924. But why is there a chain around it?

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    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
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