This novel, set in the titular locale, is set at the turn of the century when coal was beginning to become the life blood of Southern Appalachia. It delves into the personal life styles of fictional characters that go about their daily lives just trying to dig a meager living from the bottom of Boissevain’s deep shaft mine. They go about their work facing cruel task masters hired by outside interest to do one thing and that is to dig coal. These pick and shovel miners are of little concern to these owners. Go with us now into Tipple Hollow, or as locals call it Tipple Holler, and meet these families who live as everyone else does dealing with social and emotional issues. They deal with mining, murder and mayhem. They do all this and still manage to delight you with laughter, love, and an appreciation of what coal camp life once was.

Tarpaper Shacks and Tipple Lights: The Continuing Saga of Tipple Holler By: Bill Tabor Old taxman should have stayed in the county seat. Coming to Boissevain Coal Camp is the last bad mistake he’ll ever make, especially for a crooked bureaucrat with his fingers in the collections. Meanwhile the miner’s union has decided to do something about their organizer’s killing and his missing assistant. They send a specialist to solve their issues, a specialist you will never forget. With a host of coal camp residents looking on, page by page, murder, mayhem, and mining continues. Come with us to Boissevain, Virginia in 1912.

Pickin’ Bone in the Bible Belt By: Bill Tabor Welcome back to Tipple Holler and the Boissevain coal camp. It’s a growing time in the camp; new residents are moving in and seasoned residents are going about their lives as best they can. Now the old superintendant has adopted a new policy, one that uses children on his bone picking belt. It is a cruel policy that allows company bosses to pay very little to clean rock from their precious coal. The camp’s school marm has fallen in love with Mountain Moonshiner Thurman Light. When a union organizer insults his beauty, we wonder if Thurman will enact some sort of mountain revenge. More murder, mayhem, and mining await on the pages of Pickin’ Bone in the Bible Belt. Come on along.

One generation saw the flood, another the fire, and now our generation is facing the same judgment as the generations of Noah and Lot for the same type of sins as their sins were fire, hail, earthquakes, darkness, and death. In this short period of time, one shall see the rise of BABYLON, THE GREAT, the destruction of the Antichrist and False Prophet, the binding of Satan in hell 1000 years after the battle of Armageddon, the nests in outer space fetched back, and the judgment of the living as the Lord Jesus Christs sits on the throne of His Glory in Jerusalem judging. Multiply and replenish the earth, for the new time of peace on the earth has come, the curse bing lifted, too.

Ophidian's Gaze By: Bill Tabor In a small 1970s Appalachian coal town, residents find themselves embroiled in mystery and uncontrolled rumor. A lethal menace has found its way onto sleepy Main Street where it quickly claims two victims then quietly slips away. As town officials deal with unexplained death, a local drug dealer becomes frantically fearful of capture and begins to act irrationally. Amid violent acts and uncertainty, local law enforcement must quell townsfolk’s fear. Add to all this an interfering federal agent from some unknown government agency and you have Ophidian’s Gaze.

"These 19 essays offer an examination and reevaluation of the Bristol sessions--from their germination, to the actual sessions, to their place in history and continuing influence" -- Provided by publisher.

construction of 'Appalachians' as "white trash" has been, in part, an attempt to reify and attack this very creativity of narrative tradition. This creation of (usually unmarked) Whiteness as (marked) Other has intriguing implications for theories of ethnicity.