Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

We all have pictures, we immigrants

Excerpt from On Discovering America, Pearl S. Buck, June 1937, Nobel-prize winning author, born Hillsboro, WV

Folk song ‘I Love Little Willie I do’ collected by Bess Brown Lomax “American Ballads and Folk Songs” MacMillan, 1934

The Hatfields and McCoys. America’s very own Montagues and Capulets. Symbols etched in America’s mind for Appalachian lawlessness.

Don Knotts long before Mayberry, as the President of his sophomore class at Morgantown High School in Morgantown, WV 1940.

Al Capp’s comic strip starred Li’l Abner Yokum, the lazy, dumb, but good-natured & strong hillbilly who lived in Dogpatch.