Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Doc Brown the Grave Robber

“Doc Brown the Grave Robber” is a story with a truth I never imagined when I was a boy. How often does a monster turn out to be a hero?

Grandma’s life was hard, I know that. Harder than I can imagine, but she lived to a grand old age, making people jump to her tune to the end.

We played whip-crack. You line up in a line and the person on the end really got it. You run with them and you come around and snap them.

Doctor Thomas Walker was a friend and confidant of Thomas Jefferson. He discovered the Cumberland Gap (long before it had a European name).

Lost under 70 feet of water in the New River. The place is known as Dunkard Bottom today but to its residents, it was Mahanain.

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