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Author: Dave Tabler

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March 27, 2017 Family life / West Virginia

He made his boast that he lived here 40 years and had never done any useful work

Joe made his boast that he lived here 40 years, had as much to eat, was as well dressed as anyone else, and had never done any useful work.

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March 24, 2017 Railroad industry / Virginia / Writers

Book Review: ‘Chasing the Powhatan Arrow’

Michael Abraham continues to stake his claim as one of Appalachia’s top regional writers. His obvious love of railroading shines through here.

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March 23, 2017 Folk medicine / Granny women / Ohio

She was a great Herb Doc, the main Doc of the county

Emma Limpert says Grand Ma brought her into the world. Also she saved one of her sisters from diphtheria, from her herb doctoring.

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elizabethton workers carry strike signs 1929
March 22, 2017 Cotton mills / Tennessee / Unions

The stretch-out and the strike

The stage was set for one of the first, if not THE first, strikes in the Southern textile field. March 12, 1929. 800 employees.

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Old Stone Church, Clemson, SC
March 21, 2017 Houses of worship / South Carolina

There is no more sacred spot in upper South Carolina

The old church has stood for more than a century and a quarter, and its gray walls have recorded the hardships of the sturdy pioneers and the march of progress.

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