Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Sadie Hawkins Day

“Sadie Hawkins Day” featured a footrace in which the unmarried girls pursued the town’s most eligible bachelors.

I wonder how she really felt about her sister being her step-mother? About her father being her brother-in-law?

Neal Thompson, author of “Driving with the Devil,” gives a quick overview of the wild world of early moonshiners and stock car drivers.

Stuart Land Co. of VA ranks at #96 on the Oldest 100 Worldwide list (it’s the 17th oldest company in the USA). Henry Smith started it in 1774.

Here’s the Tater Valley Schoolhouse, active 1850-1950, moved from Tater Valley in Anderson County, TN to the Museum of Appalachia.