Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Fasnacht in Helvetia WV

WV Swiss settlers combined the Catholic celebration of Lent with the Protestant Winterfest of Zurich, when Old Man Winter is burned in effigy.

First stop for Southern Highland Handicraft Guild’s traveling exhibition will be at the American County Life Assn. conference at Blacksburg.

Hundreds of thousands of copies of shaped-note collections of religious songs were put into circulation between 1800 and the end of the Civil War.

Liner notes for 1951 Folkways record ‘Old Harp Singing,’ featuring the Old Harp Singers of Eastern Tennessee, by Sidney Robertson Cowell.

Here, there, in this community & that, some young man, some young woman is emerging into a new life where an infinite service can be rendered.