Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

“How-DEE! I’m just so proud to be here”

The character we know today emerged when 27 year old Sarah Ophelia Colley was producing an amateur musical comedy in Baileyton, AL.

Just as the mail order catalog began to give mountaineers access to consumer products, a regional movement to market traditional crafts began.

When you’re talking with family, are you liable to let down your guard & use a bit more Appalachian English & a bit less Standard English?

The young mine train motorman is horrified to discover that, because he could not stop in time, he has run over his brakeman.

A popular recording and radio personality, Wade Mainer influenced Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley and Doc Watson.