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Appalachian History
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About Me
- Dave Tabler
- I spent the last 10 years helping my dad Kenneth edit his autobiography about growing up in Depression-era West Virginia. And now I'm hooked on this stuff!
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May
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- The Kentucky Cave Wars
- Busted not for selling babies, but for the abortio...
- The center of social activity for the upstate
- A Civil War treasure returned
- The WV family that brought us Mother's Day
- Old Man Wright rides into exile
- I have always worked with men
- Woman has no greater claim to the rights of the ba...
- The world's largest carbon factory
- Miss America 1924 drives a Dagmar
- A dreadful cyclone that came this way
- Light up a Spud!
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April
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- Operator, ring me up
- Die Kolony Bernstadt
- Congressman snubs suffrage leader
- Hobo Nickels
- A mill built plenty sturdy
- Hickory chickens are underfoot this month
- Baseballs' First World Series Hero: Deacon Phillip...
- Deborah Weiner discusses her book 'Coalfield Jews'...
- News bee been by?
- Bank Night at the Met
- The oldest continuously played golf course in the ...
- Empress of the Blues
- Sassafras tea - THE spring tonic
- Moving cotton through the upcountry
- That’s old Hide-an’-Taller, the best gun ever seen...
- The largest Sunday school in Eastern Kentucky on t...
- She came rollin' down the mountain
- Pleased to be getting a mural, though not sure wha...
- It was daytime, but the sky was as dark as night
- Horace Kephart, champion of the Smokies
- Chattanooga woman strikes out Babe Ruth
- Had to furnish my own horse; bought one from the c...
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March
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- Mountain songs and sayings have living reality
- The King of Stink
- Water ran rippling and singing a merry song
- The Scottsboro Boys
- The boldest indecent passages I have ever seen
- The true pork pie hat
- Happy Eostre!
- Voice from the Queen City of the Alleghenies
- True to my love, my love's been true to me
- "Que te parece! Now I believe in the egg!"
- Cead Mile Failte, says Kentucky
- Inaugural Address of WV Gov. Henry D. Hatfield
- Tennessee murder tale
- The CCC boys has been giving away the buildings
- We got along well with them. Of course, we knew o...
- Zelda Fitzgerald dies in hospital blaze
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