Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Seven generations of stubbornness

The role of the Scots-Irish on the Appalachian region and the United States should not, cannot, and will not be dismissed or overlooked.

History is a function of memory. Memory is a function of language. If your language base is oral, history becomes a function of communal memory.

Canning cannot be valued monetarily, but can only be measured in the love of family, tradition, the land, and fresh, truly good, food.

The Black Gold Festival in Hazard is Kentucky’s second largest festival (the Kentucky Derby Festival Marathon/miniMarathon is the largest).

The song’s odyssey began September 15, 1937 when folklorist Alan Lomax recorded a version by 16-year-old Georgia Turner in Middlesboro, Ky.