Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

The Holly Tree (a 4th century Christmas tale)

Since you saved the Holy Family, from now on we’ll call you & all your kin the Holy Tree. But it’ll change from Holy tree to Holly tree.

Though few Civil War battles were fought there, SW Virginia was critical to the Confederacy. One reason was the salt works in Saltville.

The marble-take-marble world of commies, steelies, aggies and glassies kept children hunkered in the dirt and out of trouble.

They are: the Horton Mill Bridge, the Swann Covered Bridge (also called the Joy Covered Bridge or Swann-Joy Covered Bridge), & Easley Bridge.

Davis, WV lumber camp woodsman asks Superintendent Danford Blair Smith to write out a dictated letter to the woodsman’s mother.