Matthew Baker is a Macon County, NC author and rural mail carrier. Put them together, and you have a couple of great books… “My Mountain Granny” and “My Mountain Heroes.” When he is traveling throughout the mountains delivering mail, he meets and interviews many senior citizens who tell him stories that go back to another time and another century. Listen now to a young man who cares about what he calls the “Greatest Generation.
Here is a collection of the finest nature essays on the mountain ranges of the world - the third boo...
A photograph of "The Mail Rider," who probably served the Medlin community in Swain County, North C...
Pioneering fiddler Jim Shumate grew up in Wilkes County, NC and performed with the top names in earl...
Over a period of forty years, Ben Fisher collected stories illustrating the humor of the Southern Hi...
Listen to the soothing sounds of Nita’s voice as she shares precious memories of the life of a mount...
For seven years, students from Smoky Mountain High School in Sylva, NC have worked with history facu...
Manley Wade Wellman (1903-1986) was a North Carolina writer most widely known for his work in scienc...
My Curious and Jocular Heroes: Tales and Tale-Spinners from Appalachia. Loyal Jones. Urbana: Univers...
Excerpt Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns includes more than twenty tales collected from Beech Mountain,...
In a letter to Horace Kephart on December 16, 1926, Theodore Marvin sends Kephart two copies of “The...
Michael Micucci, an outfitter, rescuer, caretaker, and Appalachian Mountain Club employee
Two climbers visit the United Kingdom to meet several accomplished Scottish and British climbers in ...
In this letter of April 9, 1929, Leonard Kephart writes his uncle Paul in response to a newspaper Pa...
"Each of these magazines carries the financial and statistical reports for the year, a list of membe...
A stingy man “won’t drink branch water till there’s a flood,” and it is “a mighty triflin’ sort o’ m...
Here is a collection of the finest nature essays on the mountain ranges of the world - the third boo...
A photograph of "The Mail Rider," who probably served the Medlin community in Swain County, North C...
Pioneering fiddler Jim Shumate grew up in Wilkes County, NC and performed with the top names in earl...
Over a period of forty years, Ben Fisher collected stories illustrating the humor of the Southern Hi...
Listen to the soothing sounds of Nita’s voice as she shares precious memories of the life of a mount...
For seven years, students from Smoky Mountain High School in Sylva, NC have worked with history facu...
Manley Wade Wellman (1903-1986) was a North Carolina writer most widely known for his work in scienc...
My Curious and Jocular Heroes: Tales and Tale-Spinners from Appalachia. Loyal Jones. Urbana: Univers...
Excerpt Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns includes more than twenty tales collected from Beech Mountain,...
In a letter to Horace Kephart on December 16, 1926, Theodore Marvin sends Kephart two copies of “The...
Michael Micucci, an outfitter, rescuer, caretaker, and Appalachian Mountain Club employee
Two climbers visit the United Kingdom to meet several accomplished Scottish and British climbers in ...
In this letter of April 9, 1929, Leonard Kephart writes his uncle Paul in response to a newspaper Pa...
"Each of these magazines carries the financial and statistical reports for the year, a list of membe...
A stingy man “won’t drink branch water till there’s a flood,” and it is “a mighty triflin’ sort o’ m...
Here is a collection of the finest nature essays on the mountain ranges of the world - the third boo...
A photograph of "The Mail Rider," who probably served the Medlin community in Swain County, North C...
Pioneering fiddler Jim Shumate grew up in Wilkes County, NC and performed with the top names in earl...