Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Time to put a berry basket to good use

Before the advent of plastic containers the homemade bark berry basket was just the thing to haul your treasures out of the woods with.

The grand opening of Lynchburg, VA’s first true skyscraper had a last minute political twist changed the Oppenmeyer Tower’s fate forever.

This was the only federal conviction in the hundreds of brutal assaults on Jehovah’s Witnesses that swept America in 1941.

And Rover’s efficiency for killing snakes? No member of our family ever was bitten by any kind of a snake in all of the years living there.

On June 29th of 1899, the boxing match that led to a ban of prize fighting in West Virginia got underway at Fries Park in Parkersburg, WV.