Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

The chance to pilot the haywagon by myself

My concentration shifted to driving the team as they strained in their collars. The wagon’s wood creaked as they pulled the massive load.

On August 6, 1890, baseball great Cy Young pitched his first professional game against Cap Anson’s Chicago White Stockings.

Folks with a strong sex drive were said to suffer from ‘white liver.’ But the folk medicine record contains scant info on this folk illness.

For all the jokes about KFC’s Colonel Harlan Sanders or the ABA’s “Kentucky Colonels,” the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels is for real.

One day an old woman wanted to bake some biscuits but she needed some sody. She sent the little boy to the store to buy some sody sallyraytus.

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