Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Answering the question: ‘Mommy, I wonder if there is a Nellie?’

The next time you drive up Nellie’s Cave Road in Blacksburg VA, think of Nellie and her legacy, and be awed by the enormous cave.

Sarah Beth Childers’ book of essays is something that anyone – even those living outside the mountainous walls of WV – can relate to.

He was born into a storied but impoverished family on the Eastern Band of Cherokee’s Qualla Boundary. Jr.’s memoir is a remarkable story.

The story of 3 days in the summer of 1936, as a government-built dam is about to flood an Appalachian town, and a little girl goes missing.

From 1959-1970, Betty Hornbeck wrote a weekly column for the Republican-Delta Newspaper in Buckhannon, WV entitled “West Virginia Whirligig”.