Jan 19, 20242 min readComing Up with Money for Lard Was HardBy Dale Welch As the cooler temperatures of early October turned into just plain cold days of November and December, it became hog...
Jan 19, 20242 min readCoal Mining: Hard Work and Low PayBy Dale Welch Coal mines in the Crawford, Davidson, Twinton and Wilder areas of Overton and Fentress Counties, in the late 1920’s and...
Nov 20, 20232 min readDale's Tales: Capitalism among the HilltopsI had a friend several years ago, who had a problem with his neighbor’s chickens running loose. It wasn’t that they were running loose,...
Nov 20, 20233 min readDale's Tales: Buckner Witch There’re several versions of how the “little woman” came to know the David Alexander and Margaret Whittaker Buckner family. Some say they...
Nov 20, 20233 min readDale's Tales: Bilbrey StationBilbrey Station was a small depot station at the 104.1 mile marker along the railroad in eastern Putnam County. Built in the early 1890s...