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Today’s program features talented young people in our community. Amy introduces the show with "Orange Blossom Special" from Ron Smith, one of the judges of the Heritage Alive! Mountain Youth Talent Contest at the Greening Up the Mountains...
The North Carolina Good Roads Association's Road Maps and Tour Book of Western North Carolina (1916) included an advertisement and picture for the Waynesville Auto Repair Company. Another advertisement in The 1916 Pictorial Story of Haywood County...
The Tennessee & North Carolina Railroad linked the community of Sunburst, N.C., and its large lumber operation to Canton, N.C., located to the north. Sunburst could be reached by rail in about an hour and fifteen minutes. A July 25, 1913,...
(047) Straight razor (c); Boxed razor (a - top of box) (b - bottom of box) with steel blade and plastic handle; blade stamped ''O.B.M. A. KASTOR BROS. GERMANY''; box stamped: ''OUR BEST MAKE, A. KASTOR & BROS. GERMANY. PRICE $3.00 EACH''; 048)...
(031) Waterproof metal container - Shaving stick case; aluminum cylinder that opens on both ends by unscrewing in the middle; with ''The JB Williams Co - Pat 8-15-16 Willams' Double Cap shaving stick Large size Regd. Nos. 419742 684613 Gastonbury,...
The captions on the back of this photograph have three sections: ""Squatter's hut, Mincke, Mo. (23 miles W. of St. Louis) July / 94. 'Poor White Trash.' The best had only one room, no loft, only partially floored. Some of the family absent.""
Straight razor; Boxed razor with steel blade and plastic handle; blade stamped ''O.B.M. A. KASTOR BROS. GERMANY''; box stamped: ''OUR BEST MAKE, A. KASTOR & BROS. GERMANY. PRICE $3.00 EACH, GERMANY'' Box: 6 3/4'' L x 1 1/4''W x 1/2''H.
(031) Waterproof metal container - Shaving stick case; aluminum cylinder that opens on both ends by unscrewing in the middle; with "The JB Williams Co - Pat 8-15-16 Willams' Double Cap shaving stick Large size Regd. Nos. 419742 684613 Gastonbury,...
Straight razor; Boxed razor with steel blade and plastic handle; blade stamped "O.B.M. A. KASTOR BROS. GERMANY"; box stamped: "OUR BEST MAKE, A. KASTOR & BROS. GERMANY. PRICE $3.00 EACH, GERMANY" Box: 6 3/4" L x 1 1/4"W x 1/2"H.
(047) Straight razor (c); Boxed razor (a - top of box) (b - bottom of box) with steel blade and plastic handle; blade stamped "O.B.M. A. KASTOR BROS. GERMANY"; box stamped: "OUR BEST MAKE, A. KASTOR & BROS. GERMANY. PRICE $3.00 EACH"; 048)...
The captions on the back of this photograph have three sections: "Squatter's hut, Mincke, Mo. (23 miles W. of St. Louis) July / 94. 'Poor White Trash.' The best had only one room, no loft, only partially floored. Some of the family absent."
This memorial to Frances L. Goodrich was written by Olive Dame Campbell shortly after Goodrich's death in 1944. The memorial appears to have been read by Campbell, most likely at the memorial service sponsored by the Southern Highland Handicraft...
This brief questionnaire was completed by Bessie Lee Blauvelt in January 1943, which describes her work with natural materials. The survey appeared on the back page of the "Highland Highlights", a newsletter published by the Southern Highland...
Louise Pitman served as director of the craft department at the John C. Campbell Folk School from 1928 into the 1940s. She was best known for her experiments with natural vegetable dyes; however, she was a skilled weaver as well. Her notes include...
This photograph shows Doris Reece carving small animals. Known as Dot Reece or "Mamma Dot," Doris Reese was first exposed to woodcarving through her neighbors Hope and Glen Brown who carved and sold their work through the woodcarving cooperative...
Nolan Beaver (1916-1998) studied woodcarving at the John C. Campbell Folk School under Murray Martin in the mid-1930s. He carved from the 1930s through the 1970s and sold his work through the school's woodcarving cooperative, which came to be...
John Hall was one of the original Brasstown Carvers. He worked with his brother, Ben Hall, and Murriel Martin at the John C. Campbell Folk School. He was best known for the "mad mule" series, which he began carving after being kicked by a mule. ...
Velma Lossiah (b. 1941) is a beadworker. She grew up on Qualla Boundary’s Big Cove community, home to many of the Cherokee’s best known craftsmen. Still, she was self taught beadworker. She specializes in the use of glass seed beads and...
This clay sculpture of a mother and child was formed from natural clay that has been slip-cast. The piece was made by Amanda Crowe (1928-2004), a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee, who is best known for figurative sculptures carved in wood. ...
