Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

The bottle tree

Are your premises safe against haints, furies & other such ornery spirits? Seen a sudden upsurge of bottles dangling upside down in trees?

In the hills of eastern Kentucky, there was a clan of folk who seem to have shared a genetic anomaly that, in effect, rendered them blue.

In June 1929, First Lady Louann Hoover refused to invite black Congressman Oscar De Priest’s wife to the White House for tea with others.

In Ashe County in June 1918, however, a group of forty deserters decided to hide out in the hills for the duration of the war.

On June 15, 1934 it all officially came together at long last. An area of 400,000 acres within the boundary of the park had been acquired.

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