Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

We thought a switch was good for everything but the toothache — part 2

Daintry Allison was 25 years old in 1921, when these photos of McDowell County schools were taken. Her school would’ve looked quite similar.

“Five miles out from Old Fort, up near Catawba Falls,” said Daintry Allison. “That was my 1st school. No teacher ever stayed there 5 months.”

The Walls of Jericho gets its name, according to Jackson County AL legend, from a traveling minister who found the canyon in the late 1800s.

Call them Rubus occidentalis if you’re of scientific bent; Blackcap if you’re not. Black raspberries are often wrongly called blackberries.

It is not money that is the root of all evil. It is idleness. Idleness leads to poverty, Idleness invites disease. Idleness breeds crime.