Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

How Carnival Games Cheat Customers

Ever wonder why you came home from the carnival empty handed? Swindled? Well, maybe! This 1930 Modern Mechanix article explains the set-up.

‘Anglo-American Code’ gave businesses a standardized word list which could be used to shortcut time on telegraphic correspondence.

Highly stylized gourd masks are an essential part of the Cherokee Booger Dance, a charged ritual of reaction against outsider intrusion.

“To Sparrows, microbes or men there must come a day when the Good Gray Mother can feed no more,” warns Miles about overpopulation.

20th century SC upcountry transitioned from traditional dependence on cotton as a cash crop to raising cattle as a major farm income source.

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