Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Newspapers called it “the Christiansburg-Blacksburg Railroad.” Here’s how the railroad became connected in people’s minds to huckleberries.

First thing we got rid of were the oil lamps

We didn’t have electricity till I was about 8 years old. First thing we got rid of were the oil lamps. Other things just came on gradually.

Plenty of Knotts County, KY politicians bought gingerbread cakes from elderly women and distributed them to people hoping to gain extra votes.

Moses Cone saw that southern mills received too little because they depended chiefly on selling yarns and cheaper fabrics.

It seemed to him that the very image of his mother as she appeared 20 years ago lived & glowed in the face & features of the strange woman.