Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

She donated her mansion to the church but then sued to get it back

Her resourcefulness emerged early when she wooed & wed a teacher from a 1 room schoolhouse in Van Lear who’d been her instructor.

North Georgia Cherokees had high regard for their neighbor Dr. Richard Banks, who treated many of them for the ravages of smallpox.

The air pressure and twisting were so great that the ship broke. The control car attached to the underbelly of the airship fell to the ground.

The miners of “The Red neck Army” picked up their Winchesters and gathered at Marmet (near Charleston) that summer morning in 1921.

Buell Kazee was a master of the high lonesome singing style of the Appalachian balladeer. He played in as many as eleven different tunings.