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Author: Dave Tabler

Coal Operators on the Southside Train Platform, Thurmond, W. Va.
July 23, 2019 Ghost Towns / Hotel industry / West Virginia

Women, booze, dice and cards

Thurmond, WV will always hold a place in Ripley’s Believe It or Not for the Dunglen Hotel’s fourteen year continuous poker run.

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Uncle Nick tombstone inscription
July 22, 2019 Appalachian celebrities / Appalachian Trail / Tennessee

Lived alone, suffered alone, died alone

His gravestone reads “Lived alone, suffered alone, died alone,” but in the 1870’s Nick Grindstaff was Johnson County’s most colorful resident

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orange male/female symbols splitting apart
July 19, 2019 Love and romance / Tennessee

Defendant is amused at the plaintiff’s charges that he was not in love with her

From the divorce case between Walter E. McDaniels and Anna C. McDaniels, Knox County [TN] Fourth Circuit Court, filed July 1926.

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b&w tent revival meeting interior
July 18, 2019 Evangelists

That old-time tent revival

It’s tent revival season across Appalachia – the region that invented the tent revival. First camp meeting? KY’s Gasper River Church. 1800.

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mr. and mrs john w gray on 50th anniversary
July 17, 2019 Civil War / Georgia

I played with the little Indians here. They were my only playmates for years.

An oral history from Confederate Veteran, Volume 20, Issue 1, by Confederated Southern Memorial Association

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