Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

I told you if you got out & built roads & cards and did things like that on Sunday that’s what’d happen to you. The booger man would get you.

Snuffy Smith creator dies

In the mid ’30s De Beck abandoned Spark Plug, subordinated Barney, and brought bodacious Hillbilly Snuffy Smith to the fore.

Comic strip artist Robert Ripley featured a tree rooted at both ends in Crossville, TN in his “Believe it or Not” panel of November 14, 1935.

Harriet Jones, M.D., was the first woman to be licensed as a physician in WV and the first woman to be elected to its House of Delegates.

“A Hard Journey” brings to life Don West, poet, ordained Congregationalist minister, labor organizer, educator, leftist activist.