Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

A very deep love for Maryland’s Oakland & Garrett County is born into all the descendants of Francis Scott Key, who’ve spent summers at 79 Alder Street.

katherine langley photo and campaign promo ticket

July 14, 2017 Kentucky / Politics

He wears the breeches but the lady has the brains

When Katherine Langley hit the campaign trail, the feeling was widespread that her husband had been the victim of a political conspiracy.

July 13, 2017 Appalachian crime / Virginia / Womens suffrage

Was it murder? Or a heart attack?

“I went up to Wise that night along with my cousin and not meaning no harm,” testified Edith Maxwell at her murder trial.

July 12, 2017 Carnivals & circuses / Ohio

They’d get up and swing around on the trapeze

The man never made any money out of the water circus. Well, I’ll tell you, he went down the river, made all the river towns aware.

Interior of Dr. William Henry Burritt home

July 11, 2017 Medical ethics / Patent medicines

Malted Milk and madness in Huntsville

Dr. William Henry Burritt left his mountaintop estate to Huntsville, AL in 1955, and in doing so, provided that city’s first public museum.

Author: Dave Tabler

Francis Scott Key’s descendants in western Maryland

He wears the breeches but the lady has the brains

Was it murder? Or a heart attack?

They’d get up and swing around on the trapeze

Malted Milk and madness in Huntsville