Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

The Depression gave my family and me a gratefulness nothing else did

Greed today took off from the Depression. Big companies tried to get from everybody so they could get by in case of another Depression.

Jane Puckett Greer did her part for the U.S. war effort in the 1940s, including her work with the top-secret Manhattan Project.

Once the public knew what and where the bunker was, of course, it was no longer a safe wartime shelter for Congress.

If the Soviet Union had attacked, the entire US Congress would’ve been whisked to the bunker at The Greenbrier resort in Sulphur Springs, WV.

My intention was to hunt snakes, and I dreamed of coming home with a beautiful and frightening diamondback rattlesnake skin.