Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

The bootleg capital of Ohio

New Straitsville was considered the Bootleg Capital of Ohio during the Depression. Its enterprising ex-coalminers concealed dozens of stills.

In this partial court transcript, Eugene W. Beck is indicted for the murder of his wife Ella. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

Justus Stearns heard reports of vast tracts of virgin timber in the southern Kentucky counties of Pulaski, Wayne, and Whitley.

“There’s a clan of partly-colored people in Barbour County often called Guineas, under the erroneous presumption that they’re Guinea negros.”

Mary Noailles Murfree, better known as Charles Egbert Craddock, spent summers in the Tennessee mountains among the people of whom she wrote.