Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

The workload was a killer, the heat intense

George A. Meyers was a founder of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. His 1930s drives brought millions into the labor movement.

There was a circus at Little Creek; they drove them back over the mountain to take them back and elephants and giraffes had no problem.

One of the first geologic explorers of NC’s Black Mountains, Elisha Mitchell, gave his name to the region’s highest peak.

My family was Lutherans in the old days, but there ain’t no Lutheran church here and we are all mixed up; we go to different churches.

We know him as Dean Martin, world famous crooner. But he was born Dino Paul Crocetti, in Steubenville, OH, the son of Italian immigrants.