Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Empress of the Blues

When Bessie Smith sang the blues she meant it. Smith (1894-1937) was the greatest and most influential classic blues singer of the 1920s.

John Denton fought for the Confederate Army, but deserted it. Then he joined the Union Army, but deserted it even faster. Then it began.

Soon after the guilty verdicts, the NAACP and the International Labor Defense came to the defense of the “Scottsboro Boys.”

The last remaining mill on the Muskingum River is the Stockport Mill in the town of the same name. The mill operation ceased in 1997.

Robert Moses “Lefty” Grove is one of only 24 major-league baseball pitchers to win 300 games or more. His lifetime winning percentage was .680

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