Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

It’s my skin! It’s my skin, Mr. Rickey!

In the summer of 1945, one white executive quietly, secretly, plotted an assault on baseball’s systematic practice of racial discrimination.

May 31, 2017 Evangelists / Family life / Kentucky / Love and romance

His excuse for marrying a child was…

He knew that she was pure and being a child she and his children would get along pleasantly together.

May 30, 2017 Ginseng / Maryland / Pioneers

Some notes on Sang Run, MD

Sang Run MD got its name from Gin Seng. At one time it grew here in abundance. There is still some scattered plants to be found.

May 26, 2017 Ohio / Railroad industry

Final run of the Bellaire, Zanesville, and Cincinnati Railway

On the long grades, when the ‘Bent, Zig-zag and Crooked’ was heavily loaded, passengers sometimes got off and walked along side, even pushed on some occasions.

aerial of honor wall with laura copenhaver statue

May 25, 2017 Lutherans / Missionaries / Virginia

Laura Lu, Lay Leader of Lutherans

Laura Lu Scherer Copenhaver wrote fiction, poetry, & church pageants. One of her poems, “Heralds of Christ,” became a well-known hymn.

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