Musicians -- North Carolina -- Jackson County; Music -- North Carolina -- Jackson County; Macon County Historical Society (Macon County, N.C.); Special events -- North Carolina -- Macon County; Storytelling -- North Carolina -- Jackson County;
Doreyl talks with Keith Shuler from Sylva, who shares stories and sings his song "Those Mystery Smoky Mountains." Amy hosts Steve Rice, Carolyn Nohria, and Riley Henry of the Macon County Historical Society. Director Rice shares the history of the...
Music -- North Carolina -- Jackson County; Jackson County (N.C.) -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes; Fund raising -- North Carolina -- Jackson County; Community life -- North Carolina -- Jackson County;Special events -- North Carolina --...
Amy introduces the show with “Unfinished Stories,” a song by Jon Zachary of Cashiers. Doreyl talks with Jim Ed Powell and Annette Moore Shelton from Tuckasegee about the history of cakewalks in Jackson County. Amy’s guest, Ruth Shuler from...
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...
Basket maker Eva Wolfe is shown in this undated photograph with an rivercane purse basket in her lap. She sits surrounded by other rivercane baskets, three of them made in the complex double weave style. One basket is tagged with a First Place...
Basket maker Eva Wolfe is shown in this undated photograph with an unfinished rivercane basket in her lap. She sits surrounded by many other rivercane baskets, most of them in the complex double weave style. Living and working in the Big Cove...
Schools -- North Carolina -- Cherokee Indian Reservation;
This photograph of the Cherokee Boarding School was taken in 1890. A school for the Eastern Band was instituted as a boarding and day school in 1884 and was operated for its first twelve years by the Society of Friends (Quakers). The school...
This undated photograph was taken of Eva Wolfe signing an exhibit brochure, probably at Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, an artisan cooperative in Cherokee, North Carolina. Eva Queen Wolfe (1922-2004) was a master basket weaver who specialized in...
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...
