Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Labor Day! Picnics, parades, dove shoots

The mourning dove is one of the most populous birds in the United States. Dove season opened September 1 in NC, WV, TN, VA, KY, and GA.

Elizabeth Crozier French founded and served as president of the Knoxville Equal Suffrage Society. She was a leader of National Women’s Party.

Bramwell, WV, pop. 4,000 at the turn of the 20th century, was the richest town per capita in the US, with at least 14 millionaires there.

Home of synchronous fireflies. But in the early 30s Elkmont, TN’s nature display was outshone by political sparks flying in all directions.

Scholars and archaeologists have been duking it out over the authenticity of the Grave Creek Stone since it first surfaced in 1838.