Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

The Vanderwarts helped bring classical music to Asheville

If you’re a lover of classical chamber music living in Asheville, you can thank the efforts of Jeanette & Joe Vanderwart for making it happen.

“La Vue Premiere,” by William P. Hopen, depicts the arrival of the first French immigrants who settled in this region in the early 18th century.

Blaine Shepherd, a youth of the Crumpler-Grassy Creek section of the county, was shot and accidentally killed by his father.

Few records of the Glen Alum [WV] payroll robbery exist, but in 1959 O.H. Booton, retired ‘Daily News’ writer, recalled the 1914 incident.

In your grandfather’s time the blacksmith shod horses, made plough points, built wagons and carriages, and made all kinds of tools.