Music -- North Carolina -- Buncombe County; Floods -- North Carolina -- Jackson County; Jackson County (N.C.) -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes; Storytelling -- North Carolina -- Jackson County;
Amy opens the show with a story about the flood of 1940 in Jackson County, followed by Milan Miller’s song, “The Flood of 1940.” Doreyl interviews Brenda McAfee from Asheville, who sings her original song, "Housewife Blues." In a special...
This brochure was developed in 1917 to help sell stock in the Allanstand Cottage Industries which was officially incorporated in 1916. The brochure explains that "the reason for changing the Industries from a private enterprise to a stock company...
These pages contain the bylaws or Articles of Incorporation of the Allanstand Cottage Industries, drafted when the business was incorporated in 1916. As the crafts business grew, Frances Goodrich decided to sell shares in Allanstand in order to...
This 1912 letter was written by Frances Goodrich for the Woman's Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Goodrich first came to western North Carolina in 1892 as a community worker employed by this mission board. It was...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
This barn loom was collected by Frances Goodrich. The loom is representative of the traditional four-harness looms used by weavers during the Craft Revivial period (1890 -1940) in the southern Appalachian mountains. Frances Louisa Goodrich...
This photograph taken by Bayard Wootten in the 1920s shows the community weavers outside of the Weaving Cabin adjacent to the campus of the the Appalachian School near Penland, North Carolina. From 1923 to 1938 the Appalachian School served as the...
