Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

The Cleudis Robbins Memorial Storytelling Contest 2013: A Good Story Takes Some Telling

The 1st Cleudis Robbins Memorial Storytelling Contest, in Bell County, KY, drew 100 schoolchildren, who told ghost stories & adventure tales.

Author Eva Nell Mull Wike explains how she came to write ‘Fiddler of the Mountains,’ about her talented uncle, Johnny Mull.

Andrew Jackson’s early years, from 1767 to his move into what became East Tennessee in 1788, established his identity as an elite.

Coal barons in Whipple, WV issued ‘Esau scrip’ to destitute miners’ wives. The women were expected to repay the loan with bodily services.

Playwright Lisa Soland discusses the Walker Sisters, last inhabitants of what was to become the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.