Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Revenuers or spies

Suppose that, one of these days when I’m out hunting, I should stumble upon a moonshine still in full operation–what would happen?

It wasn’t possible to return prisoners doing work in the most distant parts of Oconee County to the county jail at Walhalla every night.

Compared to the Puritans & the Cavaliers, the Covenanters have been neglected and ignored in the history and public thought of the country.

When the U.S. Army came to what is now Oak Ridge, TN in 1942 with the Manhattan Project, 1,000 families on 56,000 plus acres had to be moved.

Lewis ‘Hack’ Wilson had already led the National League in homers four out of the previous five years at the beginning of the 1930 season.