This view captioned the 'Fontana Dam site'� from the report by the Tennessee Valley Authority, 'The Fontana Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction, and Initial Operations of the Fontana Project'� (Washington: ...
Hydroelectric power plants -- North Carolina -- Swain County;
Among the featured headlines the August 27, 1929 issue of 'The Ruralite' (Sylva, N.C.) was the article 'Power Co. Will Build Nantahala Dam this Fall,'� reporting on plans of the newly formed Nantahala Power and Light Company for a hydroelectric...
Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This sound recording is an excerpt from an interview with Oscar Cantrell explaining how local people pledged time, labor, materials, and money to help build the John C. Campbell Folk School. Cantrell worked at the John C. Campbell Folk School and...
Jackson County (N.C.) -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes ; Heart -- Diseases -- Prevention; Music -- North Carolina -- Jackson County;
On this second Saturday of "Heart Month," 100-year-old Jane Chastine from Tuckasegee—who won our hearts as children—shares stories from her life, including a memorable encounter with a "painter." Neal Hearn interviews Dr. Earl Haddock from...
Schools -- North Carolina -- Swain County; Alarka School (Swain County, N.C.)
This photograph shows the new school building in Alarka, North Carolina, a community in Swain County, N.C. The decision to build a new school in Alarka provided the opportunity to consolidate smaller schools into the new structure through the use...
This three-string dulcimer was made by Kentucky luthier Jethro Amburgey. As is typical of early hand-built Appalachian dulcimers, this instrument is only partially fretted, the frets not reaching across the entire fret board. This instrument was...
This woodworker's tool chest belonged to carpenter Jesse Bryson Stalcup (1860-1931). It is believed to be custom made by Stalcup. The chest contains a variety of woodworking tools typically used by craftsmen in the late 19th and early 20th...
Artisans -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handloom industry -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
These documents pertain to the life and work of Lucy Morgan, weaver, instructor, and founder of the Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts). Included is the transcript of an interview conducted by Edward Dupuy and Clifford...
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 photograph of Ed Teems with a draw knife and a piece of wood was taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934, during the time she spent in the area around Brasstown, North Carolina. Teems was a fiddler and the Teems family was one of several...
This September 25, 1933 letter was written by Frances L. Goodrich from her summer home in New Hampshire to Olive D. Campbell at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C. The letter demonstrates the collaboration and deliberation of...
