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Author: Dave Tabler

2 boys get on a school bus in grafton wv
January 4, 2011 Oral histories / West Virginia

They’d help shove the bus up the hill

On the way home from school, we’d stop at Hatfield’s Grocery over at Roach, get off the bus, wait there for the driver to come and pick us up.

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The decorative Christmas plant that takes its name from him is such a footnote to his illustrious life that it’s mentioned ONCE in his bio.

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christmas kitchen in Surry County NC
December 24, 2010 Christmas traditions / North Carolina

A kitchen welcomes Christmas

The stove is a wood burning stove with six burners, a water tank on the side and warming closets at the top.

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Leon Czolgosz conceals handgun in a handkerchief
December 2, 2010 Appalachian crime / Politics / West Virginia

President McKinley’s assassin and the Charleston connection

One of the most enduring stories in the history of West Virginia crime concerns the identity of the assassin of President William McKinley.

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'wanted' poster for lewis redmond
November 1, 2010 Appalachian crime / Dark Corner / South Carolina

Lewis Redmond – the Prince of Dark Corners

Pickens County SC’s most famous outlaw, and in his time, the nation’s best-known bad-man, is coming back to The Oconee Community Theatre.

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