Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

The Agricultural Adjustment Administration adjusts farmers pockets to less full

Surpluses of the main US farm products had been piling up in storage bins since the early 1920s. FDR used the AAA to balance that.

My life allowed me to travel far from these hills, from the struggle to survive, the life of the mountain folk. But still, it never leaves me.

I guess Albert Hash & the Whitetop Mountain boys are next on the list. Albert is known far ‘n wide for his woodworking and instrument making.

Joe Sharp played mandolin for the Skyline Farms square dancers when they performed for Eleanor Roosevelt at the White House.

Thousands of journalists across America were taken in by the most astonishingly successful journalistic hoax of the early 20th century.