Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Voice from the Queen City of the Alleghenies

Sara Roberta Getty (1880-1973) served as Woman’s Editor for the Cumberland [MD] Daily News from 1924 to 1942. She wrote four books of poetry.

That spring, I gathered up suitable pieces of scrap lumber wherever they could be found in order to construct a brooder house.

Granny women. Appalachia’s midwives. They are usually elder women in the community, the ones people come to with their problems.

The shillelagh [siúil éille is a Gaelic word meaning “oak club”] is a wooden cudgel named for Shillelagh Forest in County Wicklow, Ireland.

All the sounds, sights & smells you picked up along the way, piece by piece, some you wanted to save, some you’d just as soon forget.

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