Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

mother's day pennant in anna jarvis birthplace home

May 9, 2018 West Virginia

The WV family that brought us Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day pennant in the house where Anna Jarvis was born on May 1, 1864. She was one of eleven children.

He laid more than 136 bricks per minute. All day.

Thoney Pietro established a new record which stands to this day – he laid single handed a section of street 30 ft wide, 350 ft long–in 8 hrs!

H.D. Wilson, mayor of Childersburg, Alabama pointing, out the location of one of the expected federal housing

May 7, 2018 Alabama / Eminent domain victims

Here, then, is a group of dislocated people who know almost nothing except farming

Some few of these were making a new beginning and, where they could get some of the better land, were succeeding on a very moderate scale.

Punch Jones wasn’t looking for the largest diamond ever found in WV. It just came into his life. And changed everything for him, and for his descendents.

May 3, 2018 Black Appalachia / Family record keeping / Folklore / Honoring the dead

The memory jug

Memory jugs made from bottles, urns, bowls & other vessels have been found on graves–almost always on African American graves.

Author: Dave Tabler

The WV family that brought us Mother’s Day

He laid more than 136 bricks per minute. All day.

Here, then, is a group of dislocated people who know almost nothing except farming

I wish they’d a threw it in the New River sometimes

The memory jug