Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Hillbilly stereotypes: picking up pine knots and going to war

People of the Appalachian Mountains are still the only cultural group in America that many people have the audacity to ridicule publicly.

The dam’s benefits may be now be seen as immeasurable in preventing loss of lives & property, but there were negatives associated with it.

After a serious accident in 1891 in Ohio, caused by the malfunction of an engineer’s watch, Webb C. Ball established unified watch standards.

Mildred Eunice Haun’s only collection of fiction, The Hawk’s Done Gone (1940), combines modern realism with ancient beliefs & superstitions.

Better get started putting that hitching post up outside your office building in Knoxville, TN. It’s still the law. There’s more! Much more!

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