Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

I were tellin’ some mount’n stories

Jane Gentry — piano teacher, Appalachian folk-music historian, weaver — was an inspiration for the movie Songcatcher.

One of the first whites to settle in Marshall County, AL was John Gunter, a Scotsman who migrated from NC after the Revolutionary War.

It is indeed lamentable to relate that more than eighty per cent of our fuel and raw material is utilized outside the state.

Napoleon Hill’s book ‘Think and Grow Rich’: the all time bestseller in the success motivation field. Over 100 million copies sold worldwide.

Willie Davis, train cook, peers through hole in diner window made by bullet from bandit’s gun in the Great Train Robbery of 1949.