Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

A dreadful cyclone that came this way

On May 2, 1929, the unusually violent storm slammed into the little community of Rye Cove, VA in the mountains of Scott County.

Ruth Bear Levy wrote about how “modern artists could create masterpieces out of the sights and sounds of Lonaconing.”

Madison County, KY native Frances Estill Beauchamp spearheaded the late 19th century antiliquor crusade in Kentucky.

Verna Mae Slone (1914-2009) relates the story of how her father Isom ‘Kitteneye’ Slone proposed to her mother, Sarah Owens Slone.

“Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth” is mainly a record of Rebecca Latimer Felton’s middle years & her husband’s political world.