Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

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We open today’s show with a look at FDR’s 1939 proclamation changing Thanksgiving from the last Thursday in November.

‘Willie’ invites his lover for a walk, during which she rejects his marriage proposal. Once they are alone on the river bank, he murders her.

Ron Rash’s Serena follows the fortunes of the eponymous central character and her husband as they create a timber barony in 1930’s America.

Mountain folk use the stripes on the woolly worm to predict winter’s path. Black stripes predict cold/snowy weather, brown stripes, milder.

Ginseng’s hold on our consciousness has been strong for a long time. Its root is famed as being a cure for almost every sort of ill.