Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Its wild spirit is true to the life of the West

Zane Grey is rightly known today as the “Father of the Adult Western.” He wrote more than 80 books featuring rich western imagery.

‘Sure-shot Bessie,’ from “Bundle of Troubles, and other Tarheel Tales,” by Workers of the Writers Program of the WPA in North Carolina.

It’s no church I’ve had sight of here in Knoxville where the ones coming in and out ain’t dressed up fit to kill.

January 2, 1938: It’s Wheeling Steel, a live radio program from the Capitol Theater in Wheeling, premiered nationwide on the Mutual Network.

The custom of using a baby to signify the New Year originated in ancient Greece, the baby symbolizing in this case not birth, but re-birth.