Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Tsuwe’nähï: A Cherokee Legend Of Pilot Knob

A secret tribe of Cherokees live either inside Pilot Mountain or in some hidden valley only reached by passing a concealed entrance.

Often the sanctuary was unpresentable on meeting days…. Men used to bring their saddles into the church and pile them down in the rear.

Norris damsite on Tennessee’s Clinch River, where 2,000 men are at work on preliminary construction. November, 1933.

This was going to be the day he asked for Lula’s hand. Finally the old man relented and gave his permission for them to be married.

Wherever evangelist Samuel Porter Jones preached, liquor stores closed, theaters and jails emptied, and cursing was reduced to whispers.