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New edition of Kephart book released
Published: 2014-11-12 16:38:31A new version of Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart is out, and it includes eight Kephart articles not included in any earlier editions. . The classic book is a collection of essays on mountain lore and life by Kephart, a major advocate for creat...
Read MoreGreenery is a Southern Appalachian specialty
Published: 2014-11-05 15:17:46This region has been furnishing the eastern United States with quantities of various evergreen materials (trees, running ground cedar, mistletoe, galax, and so on) for well over a century. Of these, one of the most interesting is American holly. In many ...
Read MoreAncient hunters had some mammoth prey
Published: 2014-10-22 15:23:56Names of places throughout the Blue Ridge country pay tribute to the familiar wildlife of the region: Bear Wallow Stand Ridge, Beaverdam Creek, Buck Knob, Fox Gap, Wild Boar Creek, Coon Branch, Wildcat Cliffs, Possum Hollow, Polecat Ridge, Raven Rocks, B...
Read MoreBalsam was once bustling railroad community
Published: 2014-10-08 15:53:25It’s always entertaining to get back off main-traveled roads and poke around in the little villages here in the mountains. Each such place has its own story. And Balsam — just off the four-lane between Waynesville and Sylva — is no exception. For s...
Read MoreA prolific year for buckeye productions
Published: 2014-09-24 15:57:21A large buckeye tree overhangs and supports the swinging gate leading into our property. Thereby, we have the opportunity to observe buckeye in all seasons. The year 2014 is a big one for buckeye seed production — the most prolific I’ve ever observed...
Read MoreEllison just plain wrong about Granville Calhoun
Published: 2014-09-24 14:49:12To the Editor: I have read with interest the original article by George Ellison questioning the account that Granville Calhoun has provided about the trip of Horace Kephart to Hazel Creek in 1904 and the response made to that article by Granville’s gre...
Read MoreMore on the saga of Kephart’s arrival at Hazel Creek
Published: 2014-09-24 14:46:26To the Editor: Readers may well be approaching exhaustion with this ongoing exchange regarding circumstances surrounding Horace Kephart’s arrival at Hazel Creek, but since his death the Kephart saga has been misrepresented to a degree rivaling the perv...
Read MoreDigging deeper into the Kephart-Calhoun relationship
Published: 2014-08-27 14:25:33The meeting between Granville Calhoun and Horace Kephart (the quintessential highlander and outlander, respectively) is a noteworthy event in this region’s cultural history. Janet McCue and I are especially interested in events associated with that enc...
Read MoreWildflower authors share tips and talk
Published: 2014-08-20 14:45:17The three authors of Seasons in a Wildflower Refuge will be at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville, 3 p.m. Aug. 23, to meet their readers, sign books and talk about native plants. They’ll cover which species flourish in this region, the importance of the 2...
Read MoreUnraveling the story of Horace Kephart’s ‘drying out’
Published: 2014-08-20 14:19:52George Ellison’s response to Gwen Breese’s letter regarding his article on Horace Kephart and his condition when he arrived at Hazel Creek states, correctly, that as someone who is working on a biography of Horace Kephart, he is “obligated to exami...
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