davetabler | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 14 2008 | bigfoot, kentucky history, appalachia, appalachian history, daniel boone
Long before it became the brand of a search engine, the creature whose uttered cry gave it a name haunted Kentuckians. Daniel Boone told tales of "killing a ten-foot, hairy giant he called a Yahoo," says John Mack Faragher in a 1992 biography of Boone.
- davetabler | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 21 2008 | jewish history, american jewry, jews in appalachia, appalachia, appalachian history, appalachian mountains history
Central Appalachia's coalfields were home to thousands of Jews between the 1880s and 1950s. Dr. Deborah Weiner, research historian and family history coordinator at the Jewish Museum of Maryland, tells their story meticulously and movingly.
- davetabler | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 07 2006 | appalachian history, appalachia, appalachian mountains history, Appalachian Studies, appalachian stories, appalachian authors
Author Kenneth A. Tabler rose from a poor, sleepy milltown in West Virginia and propelled himself to a PhD and a high profile career with that newly invented thing called "the computer." This book reads folksy without being sentimental about the very real people it depicts struggling to live through the Depression & its aftermath.
- davetabler | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 21 2006 | appalachia, appalachian authors, appalachian history, appalachian mountains history, appalachian stories, Appalachian Studies
18 bloggers sound off about Appalachian history, Appalachian present, and all points in between.
davetabler | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 17 2006 | appalachia, appalachian authors, appalachian history, appalachian mountains history, appalachian stories, Appalachian Studies
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