Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Knoxville’s Red Summer of 1919

Knoxville, TN up till the ‘Red Summer’ of 1919 had always prided itself as a model southern city when it came to race relations.

The Parkers of Lawrence and Pike County Kentucky grew with a community obligated to raise up their children in the “good old fashioned way.”

The path of Mountain Dew to its current worldwide popularity breaks into a number of offshoots that parallel, intertwine, and circle back.

For many years Ira Butts and neighbor Clifton Pitts had been arguing over the boundary line of a small piece of property.

It protected the dress underneath, served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven. It was wonderful for drying children’s tears.

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