Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Box after box of penny candy that we loved to buy

Large glass display cases held items of interest. One of the largest cases held box after box of penny candy that we loved to buy.

The term for bluegrass music derives from Bill Monroe’s band, assembled during the 1940’s, “Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys.”

When Sgt. Alvin C. York returned to America in 1919 as the best-known hero of the World War, he devoted his attention to improving education.

When you look back into the mid 1800s, everybody was farming, everybody was cutting down timber for lumber. 100 years of destruction.

Before NASCAR, there were moonrunners: a delivery guy in a souped up car with a 200-gallon moonshine tank, driving at breakneck speeds.