Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Harrison Construction Company of Pittsburgh won the contract for the nation’s heaviest airport grading job in October 1944, in Charleston, WV.

East Tennessee was considered the ‘pits’ of the mission

Everyone in the headquarters seemed to pity me. East Tennessee District was considered the ‘pits’ of the mission.

“There’d be a group of men working together, and they’d ask if my dad could sing and if they could sing he’d learn it from them.”

But what can he get? Not an earthly thing. We don’t own anything, not a damned thing he can touch, and I’ve already told him that.

Now began the building of Middlesborough, the name which Mr. Alexander A. Arthur had proposed for the town having been adopted.