Storytelling -- North Carolina -- Jackson County; Choral conductors -- North Carolina -- Jackson County; Festivals -- North Carolina -- Jackson County; Music -- North Carolina -- Macon County; Musicians -- North Carolina -- Macon County; Farm life...
Amy begins the show with her story “Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries,” which is about the home her family lived in during the 1950s, in Cullowhee and how the song the story is named after helped her with difficulties in her life. The story is...
Artists -- North Carolina -- Macon County; Jackson County (N.C.) -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes; Music -- North Carolina -- Jackson County; Mountain life -- North Carolina -- Jackson County;
Doreyl interviews JoAnn Meeks from Franklin, who discusses how art has helped her mind, body, and soul. Amy talks with Willie Mae Golden from Tilley Creek, who tells stories of growing up in Western North Carolina. The music of guitarist Ron Smith...
Artists -- North Carolina -- Jackson County; Musicians -- North Carolina -- Jackson County; Pottery, American -- North Carolina, Western; Special events -- North Carolina, Western
Doreyl talks with Kathy Rowe of Cullowhee, a fabric and textile artist, songwriter, and musician. Amy interviews potters Joe Frank McKee and Travis Berning of Tree House Pottery in Dillsboro, who helped start the annual WNC Pottery Festival held...
This picture entitled 'The Nantahala Valley, North Carolina' from the 1904 edition of Holman D. Waldron's With Pen and Camera thro' the 'Land of the Sky' exemplifies the steepness of the mountains which helped inspire the name 'Middle Sun,' or more...
This single fold brochure was designed to promote the quilts being made by "mountain women" in the Cashiers area of North Carolina. Their quilts were sold through the Allanstand Cottage Industries shop in Asheville, N.C. during the 1910s and...
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...
In this paper written by Raymond E. Pippin in the early 1930s, Pippin puts forward a plan for a craft cooperative system which would support crafts people across the United States. He outlines the problems of "Chaos and Ruin" resulting from the...
In 1944, the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild and the Southern Highlanders, Inc. received a $6,000 grant from the General Education Board to study the field of crafts as an income-producing venture in the southern Appalachian area. Grant staff...
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...
Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Weaving -- United States;
These documents pertain to the life and work of Howard C. Ford, more commonly known as Toni Ford. Included are a biographical profile written to accompany an exhibit at the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild in 1985 and two pages of biographical...
This handmade fiddle or violin is made from walnut, and pine or spruce. Evident through the sound hole on the back interior is an inscription "A. Manson Ingle maker 1873." An additional paper label also inside reads "Paternal grandfather of Hubert...
The Blue Ridge Weavers was a shop in Tryon, North Carolina that was established in 1914. Mr. & Mrs. Cathey helped local people with basketmaking and weaving. Questionnaires like this one were the raw data for the exploratory study of the Craft...
This sound recording is an excerpt from an interview with Jean Ritchie talking about how she first met Georg Bidstrup and Marguerite Butler Bidstrup at Little Mama's cafe after a dance in Berea, Kentucky. Marguerite Butler helped to found the John...
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 fruit woodcarving of St. Francis of Assisi was done by Olive Dame Campbell and given to Marian Heard. Campbell did a second carving that was given to Louise Pitman. It helped to popularize the subject for the Brasstown Carvers of John C....
This is an 1800s-era skein winder. After fiber was spun, dyed, and plyed, the finished skein was wound onto a spool or bobbin. This wooden mechanism helped to speed up that process. The spool was stuck onto the metal prongs and a handle turned...
After the fiber was spun, dyed, and plyed, the finished skein was wound onto a spool or bobbin. The skein winder and lazy kate mechanism helped to speed up this process. The spool was stuck onto the metal arm and the handle was turned to take up...
This watercolor drawdown and its associated draft, dating to the late 1800s/early 1900s, illustrate the coverlet pattern known as Federal City. To record a pattern, a weaver creates a draft and/or a drawdown. A draft looks much like a strip of...
Indian wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
Lloyd Carl Owle (b. 1943) was born and raised in the Birdtown community on the Qualla Boundary. As a child, he helped his father make bows and arrows. In high school, he studied woodcarving with Amanda Crowe and later turned to making sculpture...
