Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Quakers and Bloody Harlan

The Quakers of the American Friends Service Committee fed Harlan County’s most desperately hungry children between fall 1931 and spring 1934.

Olive Dame Campbell (1882-1954) co-founded, with Marguerite Butler, the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC in 1925.

Hundreds of workers on WV’s Hawk’s Nest Tunnel and Dam died of silicosis, in what is considered one of America’s worst industrial disasters.

When the NCAA Tournament tips off, you may know every team’s star player and its odds to win the title. But how well do you know the mascots?

March 17 isn’t just any ordinary day in Kentucky. St. Patrick’s Day is time for Eastern Kentucky vs. State, corned beef & cabbage, & parades.

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